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From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: disk block organizer?
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.183127.29673@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 18:31:27 GMT
References: <8064@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Mar17.180530.18051@cs.dal.ca> <1991Mar17.210137.162@iitmax.iit.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article <1991Mar17.210137.162@iitmax.iit.edu> technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Tech News Account) writes:
>
> What he means is a DEFRAGMENTER, not a fast-load program...

One of the best defragmenters you can get is a simple file-copy program.
Just format a new disk and copy the files from one disk to the other,
and they will appear contiguously and with an efficient interleave.

Note that most modern copiers will let you set the interleave factor,
and you should set it according to how fast your disk drive / DOS will
load:

	DOS/Drive		Interleave
	---------		----------
	Epyx FastLoad		10
	SS V4+ / 1541		Any, 10 is fine.
	JDOS / 1541		6
	JDOS / 1571		4
	WarpSpeed		???
	ANY 1581		1 (doesn't matter)

This is all for PRG files.  SEQ file speedups don't often occur, and 10
is just fine as an interleave for them.

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