Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!ugkamins
From: ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk fragmentation
Message-ID: <5170@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 11 Apr 89 02:20:47 GMT
References: <2357@van-bc.UUCP>
Sender: nobody@cs.Buffalo.EDU
Reply-To: ugkamins@sunybcs.UUCP (John Kaminski)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
Lines: 30

In article <2357@van-bc.UUCP> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>In <5117@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski) writes:
>>The filing system on the Amiga uses hashing with chaining.  In case you don't
>
> Well, that's close. Tha hash value does not point at a sector on disk, but to a
>hash table offset within either the root block or a directory block. Contained
>in that hash table entry is the pointer to either a directory block or a file
>header block.
   OOOPS!  yep.  Sorry 'bout that.  Live and RElearn.  Manuals are wonder-
ful if you just read them before shooting off one's fingers -- er... mouth.
>
>ExpressCopy, from Expressway software is a HD backup program that will do
>exactly this. It will copy any arbitrary partition, directory, or subdirectory
>onto multiple floppies, creating standard Amigados floppies that can be
>accessed as normally generated floppies can, and at the rate of about 1 every
>1.5 minutes, to multiple drives.
>
Thanks for the info.

or the .info?

   //      "Do we get what we deserve
  //         or deserve what we get?" -- me
\X/  The Amiga 1000 vows to never die

P.S. -- another instance of a news poster rejection for including more old text
than original/new text.  Time here to reiterate a quote that now should prob-
ably be (somewhat painfully) applied to myself:
"Don't listen to me -- I never do"  -- The Doctor
    (which, coincidentally, I like Tom Baker better)