[Coco] DECB FAT question

[Darren A.]

>So, one thing I've been wondering:  Are there any Disk BASIC programs
>that will ignore allocated granule chains in the FAT if they don't
>have a directory entry?
>
>For example, my evil hybrid CP/M - CoCo disk.  The first 32 granules
>are marked as a single file in the CoCo FAT, but I didn't create a
>directory entry for that chain.  Are there programs out there that
>would have a problem with this?
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Utilities designed to do "Disk Repair" would probably consider these to be 
lost granules and make them available for use again. Any other software 
designed to be used on a Disk Basic disk should honor the allocations 
specified in the FAT.

Darren

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