[Coco] Some OS9 Questions

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 29 July 2007, Bob Devries wrote:
>Gene,
>
>setting the SAS to 255 will certainly help *if* the file is created once and
>never extended again. However, if the file is continuously opened, extended
>and closed again, as you do with directories, would that not still result in
>fragmentation?

No, not really, because the file will be re-written to a new, contiguous area 
each time.  It will move around, but it won't be fragmented.

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