What is 1430K Free?

This little application, "1430K free", uses the standard way (documented in Inside Macintosh Vol. IV page 240) to modify the sizes of the clump size (=> catalog size) and extent tree. It can't modify the size of the Desktop file because before System 7 it was non-documented, and under System 7 it's created with a smaller size anyway.

It also allows you to logically format a floppy disk without physically formatting (i.e., performing the last step of disk initialization, "creating directory").

Using it under System 7 you may create disks which have slightly more than 1430 Kbytes free on a 1440 K disk, that's a perceptually small improvement but sometimes it may be useful. Anyway, why should you leave those kbytes totally unused ? MS-DOS users get more than 1430 Kbytes free !

 

1430K free	15 Mar 92 12:46 pm
1430K free.doc	15 Mar 92 01:40 pm
big format.c	04 Mar 92 08:18 pm
1430k free.¹.rsrc	09 Feb 92 09:12 am

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II