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From: izot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Can REL files be copied?
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Date: 15 Apr 89 11:59:49 GMT
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 > From: jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Joe Greco)
 > Message-ID: <2023@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
 
 > Also note that one of the better ways of finding the max record length
 > is to open the physical directory file and LOOK.  That has the
 > disadvantage of not working with RAMDOS and some less than compatible
 > disk drives.
 
   The method discussed finds the number of records in the file, not the 
number of bytes per record (which I think we'd all agree should be fetched 
from the directory file).
 


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