Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!miller From: miller@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: A 1541 DOS question Message-ID: <16800017@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 22:39:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.16800017 Posted: Sat Dec 1 22:39:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 04:52:20 EST References: <1052@drufl.UUCP> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:drufl:-105200:uiucdcsb:16800017:000:338 Nf-From: uiucdcsb!miller Dec 1 21:39:00 1984 To answer your question on the c64 1541 files: The directory contains the # of sectors used in the file. Each sector contains 256 bytes. The first two are used as a chain to the next sector in the file (leaving 254 for data) *except* in the last sector, where the # of bytes in that final sector is stored. A. Ray Miller Univ Illinois