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Re: Moving binary files to /RAM
- Subject: Re: Moving binary files to /RAM
- From: David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au>
- Date: 31 Jan 2005 11:58:14 +1100
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- Organization: University of Wollongong
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email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams) writes:
>Well, I've tried every combination that I can think of and the result
>seem to be that the delay is related to the order in which the BIN files
>are copied to /RAM. No matter what order I BLAOD them it always takes a
>lot longer for the last four in the directory. Is it that ProDOS has a
>hard time seeing anything past 12 files??? I'm annoyed and perplexed...
12 is the number of file entries ProDOS stores in the first block of the
volume directory. File 13 is the first one in the second block.
/RAM can only hold 12 files without using subdirectories as it only
uses one block rather than 4 as all other ProDOS volumes use.
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David Wilson School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia