Re: A86: directories

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Subject: Re: A86: directories
From: Dux Gregis <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 18:57:43 -0400
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David Phillips wrote:

> At 02:45 AM 5/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >David Phillips wrote:
> >> I don't really think it could be done easily.  You'd have to create a new
> >> VAT/FAT table to account for directories, and the real VAT wouldn't reflect
> >> the new one.
> >No you wouldn't.  You can just take advantage of the unused byte.
>
> You'd have to have some list for multiple vars with the same name.

You could do this: all variables with 01 in the unused byte belong to the same
directory, all with 02 in the unused byte belong to the same directory, etc.  It
really doesn't matter because you would be writing your own _findsym.

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