::Same for Apple, but there is no difference between
REL and SEQ from
::the viewpoint of the system sins SEQ is just a special case of REL.
Are you sure? RELative files have both a side sector
stream and the
data stream (the side sector stream used for storing record indexing
information of records in the data stream). They're handled by different
portions of the 1541 ROM, so I'm pretty sure one is not a subtype of the
other.
But it can be seen as one. Apple DOS stores files thru a block
list, where a bit is set for every allocated block within the
'file address space'. So if I open a random text file and put
a 128 Byte record into position 1000, only two blocks are written
onto the disk. THis structure is the same for sequential written
files - just there are no unallocated blocks.
Pleas correct me if my memory regarding CBM files (or Apple files)
has some holes - I'm about to develop a influenza right now.
Gruss
H.
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HRK