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Fwd: Empty blocks in FILES-11 directory files.

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by: Mark Daniel - Sun, 25 Sep 2022 13:23 UTC

On 25/9/2022 5:50 pm, Oswald Knoppers wrote:
> Op zaterdag 24 september 2022 om 19:31:31 UTC+2 schreef Mark Daniel:
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>> Are their tools to measure such directory file efficiency (shall we say)
>> and to "compress" such files (apart from backup-restore).
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> You can install dfu (https://www.digiater.nl/dfu.html). This utility has an option to compress directory files.
>
> Oswald

Thanks Oswald (and Volker). Should have thought of DFU myself. Used it
for donkey's years but only to DELETE/DIR/TREE. Must read the
documentation to see what I'm missing out on.

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Fwd: Empty blocks in FILES-11 directory files.	Mark Daniel