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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
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Date: 25 Jan 91 15:42:32 GMT
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In article <7201@crash.cts.com> rhood@pro-gsplus.cts.com (Robert Hood) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca
>
>Re: rearranging ProDOS directories
>
>Nibble magazine published a "directory designer" that does just this task.  As
>I recall, Copy II Plus 9.0 can also manage this.  If those programs elude you,
>it should be fairly (!) simple to load a directory into memory and manually
>shift the entries.  After all, the entries are of fixed length and start at
>fixed locations....

BTW, was the original poster wanting to reorder the directory entries or
reorder the files themselves? I thought that I remembered him(her?) saying
that it took a long time to boot up since the boot files were at the end
of the cartridge, and the head had to seek around a lot.
Doing something like this would require more than rearranging directory
entries. Norton Speed Disk does this on the IBM's (and Macs too?). Does anyone
know if BeachComber in ProSel does this?

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