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Subject: Re: DIRT - a new DIR command
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Date: 26 Nov 90 01:22:20 GMT
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Charles K Hughes writes:

>  Is anybody interested in a directory compactor?  It would remove all the 
>deleted & open for write files from a directory, and then deallocate
>any extra sectors the directory is using.  Interested?

Couldn't this just be accomplished by copying all the files from one disk to 
another?  Hmmm....
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