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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Language Discussion Vote
Message-ID: <5936@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 19:44:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 19:44:59 1987
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In article <3306@ecsvax.UUCP> ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher) writes:
>Is there still a 32 MB limit for Prodos 16 volumes?  I had heard that
>the volume sizes were greatly increased for Prodos 16 but I have not
>been able to get the Tech reference manual yet, so I don't know.

I thought I remembered the ProDOS 16 Tech. Ref. saying that, but I'll
check and if it's different I'll let you know.  Note that the 32Mb limit
corresponds to the maximum size that a 16-bit block pointer (for 512-byte
blocks) can reference.  This is the fundamental constraint, built into
the structure of ProDOS directories.  The format has to be changed or
extended somehow to access a larger partition.