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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: two questions...
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.095321.12476@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 09:53:21 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:

>    You mean to say that Apple Pascal keeps all your files CONTIGUOUS (all in
>one continuous block, not scattered all over the place).  Is that feature
>automatic?  Or do you have to specify Krunch Disk to optimize the files?  All

The feature is _required_ in the sense that Apple Pascal will give a disk full
error rather than write a fragmented file to disk. It was simply incapable of
dealing with fragmented files, and the Krunch facility was necessary because
of it.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu