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Couple of disk questions

2014-01-04 by Gordon JC Pearce

I'm hacking together a utility to read samples off the Fairlight .IMD files that are kicking around, and generally poke about with QDOS disks.  I notice that on some sound disks there are files that have the first two bytes of the filename set to 0xff - does this mean they are marked as deleted?

Also, why are there occasionally large gaps in the catalogue between directory entries?  Deleted files that have been somehow "compacted" away?

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Gordonjcp MM0YEQ

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