Re: DOS Master, invisibility, and solutions

["Don" <numberfiveplusone@gmail.com>]

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> But providing a tree-structured directory structure, as ProDOS does,
> is a much more general solution to this problem.
>
> It was actually the very primitive free-space management scheme that
> Pascal used which required partitioning into smaller logical volumes.
>
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Michael,
I absolutely agree with you, the Pascal file management leaves a lot to be
desired.  My issue with the "solution" in Pascal 3 was that it didn't give
me a tree-structured file system, it just gives me a very large volume with
the same file count limitation that I had on a floppy disk.  I could "work
around" that on the ProFile by having programs dynamically mount additional
volumes as required, essentially treating the volume name as the first level
in the file structure.

-- 
be seeing you ... Don
Don Melton, Sr. Consultant, Vatic Technologies Limited