Directory node descriptors and AHDI

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From: MALCOLM
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1989 17:02

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Thanks to Allan Pratt for his clear description of the 40-folder bug and
what TOS 1.4 does about it.  No flame intended, but I think this is the first
*real* description of the problem that I've seen.  Which brings me to my
question.  When I disassembled AHDI (version 1.7 I think) I noticed that it
contained identical pool-extension code to FOLDRXXX.  So am I right in thinking
that if AHDI extends the pool by a large enough number of directory node
descriptors I can throw away FOLDRXXX?  I could add code to AHDI to make the
extnension variable (duplicating the functionality of the 'XXX' in 'FOLDRXXX').

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