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   fadden to fadden   
   Re: CP/M filesystem questions   
   13 Aug 23 17:02:37   
   
   From: thefadden@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 9:23:15 AM UTC-7, fadden wrote:   
   > I found the 31:cp/m.sys and 31:cp/am.sys files on some of the disks from   
   Asimov. They have allocation block numbers >= 128, on a disk that only has 128   
   blocks. For reasons I can't recall, CiderPress displays them and actually mods   
   the block number, so    
   the file is readable.    
   >    
   > What purpose does this entry serve? That wasn't clear to me.   
      
   I figured it out (data-only disk).   
      
   Ugh.   
      
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