That's a good point.  I needed that message for debug.  I guess it could be
removed.

On Friday, September 27, 2019, Peter Noeth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Steve,
>
>   Thanks for the clarification.
>
>   That was my other thought, but since I had never seen a similar message
> in the TRS-DOS days of "Floppy Disk Only Storage" on the Model 1 or 4P
> where one could fill the directory table easily too, I didn't expect the
> REX would notify the user ether, as long as there was no "Unrecoverable"
> error.
>
>   I will add that bit of info to my REX notes.
>
> Peter
>
> <snip>
>
>
> >On Friday, September 27, 2019, Steven Adolf <[email protected]
> <http://.com>> wrote:
>
> >There is a finite length of the directory in flash.  Old directory entries
> >are not erased ..they are marked as old.
> >When you hit the last table entry, the table gets rebuilt to reflect the
> >current entries only, erasing the old entries.
>
> >Steve
>
>
> >On Friday, September 27, 2019, Peter Noeth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >   I was doing some fine tuning on a BASIC program, and when I used the
> > System Menu command key "CTRL-B" to refresh the backup image of RAM, I
> got
> > the message "Rebuilding Directories" (or some such, I didn't write it
> down)
> > after the RAM image was updated.
> >
> >   Is this message due to "wear leveling" of the REX FLASH memory?
> >
> >   REX seems to be still working.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter
> >
>
>  <snip>
>
>

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