[Coco] Curious DECB File o bytes

[Bill Pierce]

I think I'm right in saying, when you create a new file in Disk Basic, HDBDOS, or RGBDOS, 1 granule is allocated to the file. So your test on an empty disk would allocate 1 gran but no bytes written yet.

OPEN "O", # 1, "TEST"
CLOSE
TEST uses 1 granule zero bytes

 Disk Basic writes to disk in 1 granule segments (9x 256 byte sectors). A waste of disk space but, it was what we had at the time. OS-9 gave us some relief with 1 sector writes. It gave us more file space.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com>
To: COCO <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Sep 8, 2012 7:57 pm
Subject: [Coco] Curious DECB File o bytes



 "O", # 1, "TEST"
CLOSE
TEST uses 1 granule zero bytes


You should not use granules

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