Re: Barracuda sector size

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From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:00

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Paul Hill said, 

> Neil Bothwick wrote Re: Barracuda sector size:

>>> It has, but you'd hardly notice.  Still looks like a 1.3 application.

>>And still runs without *any* extra libraries etc. which is essential
>>for a critical tool that may be used on a totally broken system.

> True.  No reason to use a hardcoded topaz font though.

An emergency boot floppy may not have any other fonts. when things go
that wrong I prefer software that uses ROM resources wherever
possible.

>>A 1 byte file would use 4K, 2K for the file contents and 2K for the
>>header block.

> Smart arse!

<G>

And with PFS2 you not only don't lose the header block overhead, but
it runs as fast with 512byte blocks as with 2K blocks :)


Neil
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