27 Jul
2003
27 Jul
'03
10:48 a.m.
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:
Apple-DOS stores starting point, and then each file
contains IN THE FILE'S
SPACE, pointers to the next space. Thus forming a linked list of sectors,
but giving you 254? bytes of data in each 256 byte sector.
In Apple ProDOS, the file entry in the directory points to either the
first block of the file (if the file is only one block in length) or a
block that contains a list of all the blocks the file uses. This is still
simple but elegant.
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