#: 12310 S1/General Interest
    20-Sep-91  08:27:24
Sb: #12294-RSDOS TO OS9
Fm: Paul Hanke 73467,403
To: Erich Schulman 75140,3175 (X)

You might check out the suggestions offered by others on this thread,   namely
using PCDOS & RSDOS to convert your files.  I did some checking with an decb
program called ZAPZ.BAS-  this allows you to look at individual sectors
including those on an OS9 disk (yep). What was most interesting was the way
DOSOR9's f.a.t. is constructed- not at all similar to the way OS9 does it in a
pure OS9 environment. (I don't even understand why it works at all.)

If you check lines 807, 1190, & 1192  you will see that DOSOR9 imposes its own
upper limit on file sizes due to the maximum allowable string length of 250
char.  I don't know enuf about OS9
and directories to muddle out of this one.  I've been rather delinqent in doing
OS9 homework; my policy has been to find out only enough to get by with the
current problem.  As it stands, I too have found other solutions to transfer
larger files and even used my own upgrade only until a file >100k came along. 
Now if someone could modify DOSOR9 to produce a 'pure OS9' type directory......
-ph-