slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey) (07/18/89)
Me again, with my usual barrage of questions... I am trying to reclaim files from a damaged DOS XE disk. I am having difficulty understanding the formats, though. According to the manual, a directory entry contains up to 12 pointers to file map sectors. File map sectors contain up to 125 pointers to data sectors. Data sectors contain up to 250 bytes each. So, by my calculations, the maximum size of one file is 12x125x250 bytes, or 375K bytes. However, the manual claims that the max size of a file is 8M bytes. What's the deal? -Stan