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From: vu2416@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (vu2416)
Subject: Re: Dis Defragmenter
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.041534.27398@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton
References: <31152@usc>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 04:15:34 GMT

     There was a thread going for a while about writing a defragmenter
for Commodore disks.  I was seriously considering writing one (I've
got code laying around that'll show the list of tracks and sectors in
use by a particular file etc...) when I realized that the following
process will work a lot faster:

1.  Format a temporary disk
2.  Copy the disk to defragment onto the temp disk
3.  Format the defrag. disk
4.  Use a file copier to copy all the files back onto the defrag.
disk.

DOS should write all the files in track / sector order.  My best idea
was to use the REU as the temporary disk.  Maybe when I get my REU
(it's in the mail) I'll look at the RAMDisk code to see if I can write
a 'defragment' command.  If anyone's interested. :)

Comments would be appreciated.

Gregg Riedel
consp24@bingsuns.pod.binghamton.edu