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."====================================== ."= THE GAP REMOVER = ."====================================== ."."LET'S SET THE SCENARIO. YOU HAVE JUST SAVED A FILE TO DISKETTE AND, TO S ET."YOUR MIND AT EASE, PERFORMED A DIREC TORY OF THE DISKETTE. YOU VIEW THE ENTI RE."DIRECTORY ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT YOUR FILE ISN'T THERE. YOU FALL INTO GRE AT."DESPAIR...A FEELING THAT ALL YOUR WO RK HAS BEEN IN VAIN. WITH A SUDDEN BLA ST."OF INSPIRATION, YOU LOOK THROUGH THE DIRECTORY ONCE AGAIN, VERY CAREFULLY TH IS."TIME. WITHIN SECONDS YOUR PULSE IS B ACK TO NORMAL, BUT ALL IS NOT RIGHT. YO UR."FILE HAS MYSTERIOUSLY PLACED ITS ELF SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DIRECTO RY."LISTING, THUS FALLING INTO A PRIOR S CRATCHED FILE'S 'BLACK HOLE'.."."THE SIT UATION IS COMMON, BUT OFTEN NOT AS DRAMA TIC. IF YOU HAVE USED YOUR."DRIVE FOR LONGER THAN A FEW DAYS, YOU ALREADY HAVE ACCEPTED THIS ROTTEN FACT."OF LIFE . SCRATCHED FILES LEAVE HOLES THAT FUTUR E FILES TRIP INTO. THIS LEADS."TO DIS ORGANIZED DIRECTORIES, AND STRANGE D ELYS WHEN PERFORMING A PASSIVE."CATALOG . A PROBLEM THAT NOW HAS A CURE. ENTER ' THE GAP REMOVER'. FIRE IT UP,."ANSWER A FEW IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, AND WITHIN A FEW MINUTES YOUR DIRECTORY WILL."BE CLEA N AND FRESH, ALL EXTRA SPACES REMOVED AN D PLACED AT THE VERY BOTTOM.."FROM TH EN ON, EVERY FILE YOU SAVE WILL APPEAR L AST IN THE DIRECTORY.."."WITHOUT TO MU CH DETAIL, THE CONCEPT IS AS FOLLOWS . THE DIRECTORY ON YOUR."DISKETTE IS HEL D ON ONE TRACK, TRACK 18 FOR THE 1541 /2031/4040 DRIVES AND."TRACK 39 FOR THE 8050/8250 MONSTERS. THE FIRST DIRECT ORY BLOCK IS SECTOR #1,."WITH EIGHT FILE ENTRIES PER SECTOR MAXIMUM. THE FIRST TWO BYTES OF EVERY."SECTOR HOLDS TH E TRACK AND SECTOR OF THE NEXT DIRECTORY BLOCK. THE SECTORS ARE."SPACED 3 APART, TO ALLOW FOR THE DRIVE TO NATURALLY R EACH IT AS IT SPINS."AROUND. IF TH E DIRECTORY SECTOR BEING READ IS THE L AST ONE USED, THE TRACK."WILL READ AS A ZERO, AND THE SECTOR WILL BE $FF. THE DO S REALIZES THAT THERE."IS NO TRACK ZER O, THREFORE THE END HAS COME. SIMPLE SO FAR.."."THE PROGRAM READS IN EVERY EN TRY FROM THE DIRECTORY TRACK, KEEPING TH E LINK."POINTERS IN CHECK AS IT GOES ALO NG. IF A NON-EXISTENT FILE APPEARS, O NE IN."WHICH HAS BEEN SCRATCHED, THE FILE IS FLAGGED TO THE SCREEN AS SHOWIN G AS A."GAP, AND ITS SPACE IS IGNORED. E VERY VALID DIRECTORY ENTRY IS KEPT IN AN."ARRAY. WHEN THE ENTIRE DIRECT ORY HAS BEEN READ THROUGH, THE PACKING P ROCESS."BEGINS. THE NON-EXISTENT FILES H AVE ALREADY BEEN REMOVED, THEREFORE IT I S JUST."A SIMPLE PROCESS OF WRITING THE PACKED ENTRIES BACK IN. ONCE THE P ROCESS."DETERMINES THAT THE END OF VALID ENTRIES HAS OCCURRED, NULL ENTRIES (32X $00'S)."ARE WRITTEN TO THE DIRECTORY SE CTOR INVOLVED TO FILL IN THE EXTRA SPACE . WHEN."COMPLETE, YOU MAY END UP HAVING AN EXTRA DIRECTORY SECTOR OR TWO I F THE."PACKING REQUIRED WAS LARGE, BUT THE DIRECTORY WILL BE OK. YOU CAN NO W SAVE."FILES TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT AN D NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM FALLING INTO."THE MYSTERIOUS BLACK HOLES OF TH E DIR QUADRANT.."."SYSOP NOTE - TRY TH IS PROGRAM ON A BACKUP DISK FIRST. YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN A."DOWNLOADED PROGRAM MI GHT HAVE JUST MISSED A NIBBLE AND THAT COULD RUN YOUR."DISK. PLAY IT SAFE, BACKUP FIRST AND THEN TRY OUT THIS NEAT LITTLE PROGRAM....
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