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From: cwwj@ur-tut.UUCP (Clarence Wilkerson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: CP/M disk directories
Message-ID: <1171@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 88 15:30:22 GMT
References: <8803102116.AA21154@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Summary: Let me take a stab at this!


I'm a little rusty at this, but let try any way. Here's an explanation
that seems to fit your observations:
1) The number of extents controlled by a single directory entry is 2
16k extents.
2) The total number of sectors covered by a single directory entry is
at most 80h in RC + 1*80h from the extent byte.
3) Thus your 2 directory entries cover 256 sectors for first entry
and 255 for second = 511.
  That is, the first directory entry in your system will have an extent
byte 0 if you have 80h or fewer sectors in the file. If you have between
81h and 256 sectors, the extent byte is 1, and the RC byte is the rest.

n
I'm a little rusty, but here's an exp