[Coco] Technical OS9 Q.

[Robert Gault]

It is the simplest way to treat disk structure. There is no meaningful 
difference between a directory and a file except for the contents. The 
slight bookkeeping difference is handled by the attribute byte.

Dave Kelly wrote:

> Bob Devries wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm. I guess that any sectors allocated would need to be a contiguous 
>> block, also?
> 
> I OS-9 treats directories just like files, why?
>