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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ACOS Mail Text Files
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.040507.19701@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 04:05:07 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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How are you deleting messages? You have to delete a file before it's
space is freed, but overwriting from the beginning re-uses the blocks that
are already allocated for the file.

If your mail file is constantly growing then you must be writing stuff
onto the end and never purging the dead messages from disk -- maybe from your
own data structure but prodos only frees disk blocks when you delete a file
completely.

I need to know more about how your Prodos routines work before I can make
any intelligent guesses as to what's wrong...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu