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From: fordke@infonode.ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.bbs
Subject: file device driver
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.200835.21216@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 20:08:35 GMT
Followup-To: alt.bbs
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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I run a bbs that stores messages one per file.  With a typical hard
disk partition, one cluster uses 2048 bytes.  Disk Manager allows
you to create (8M limit) a partition that uses only 512 bytes per
cluster.  This is great since most bbs messages are very short.
However, adding and deleting these partitions requires reformatting,
and that is not so great.  There was a program, FILEDEV or sililar,
that will create a 8M file with a device driver that will treat it
as a partition.  Thus, adding more would be easy.  However, I read
that it would not run on DOS versions > 3.21.  If anyone has more
info on this program, or similar ones, I would appreciate it.
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