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From: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.COM (Morgan Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Space on a volume
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Date: 27 Dec 87 15:44:25 GMT
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Bob Church writes:
> [how do you] determine just how much empty space is left on a prodos volume.

Use the MLI's Get_File_Info call on the volume name.  Then look at the
resulting parameter table at these byte offsets:

        +5/+6   Total Blocks on volume

        +8/+9   Blocks used

Just do a subtraction of Blocks used from the Total blocks to get a freespace
block count.

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