Date   : Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:07:18 +0000 (GMT)
From   : James Fidell <james@...>
Subject: Re: Emulation systems

> >> BBCTAPE_.___   Index file
> >> BBC-FILE.000   file 'BBC-FILE'
> >> Q_FILE00.001   file 'Q.FILE0000'
> >> R_BBC_FI.002   file 'R.BBC/FILE'
> >> 
> >> and the index file would contain entries like:
> >> 
> >> Id# Filename    Exec Addr  Load Addr   Next FileId#
> >> === ==========  =========  =========   ===========
> >> 000 BBC-FILE    FFFF8023   FFFF0E00    002
> >> 001 Q.FILE0000  FFFF4000   FFFF4000    001
> >> 002 R.BBC/FILE  FFFFFFFF   FFFFFFFF    FFF
> >
> >I like this idea -- I'll probably put something similar into Xbeeb v0.4
> >for the disk emulation.
> 
> Merging two directories using this number indexing scheme will be *very*
> cumbersome without the help of a dedicated utility.  Why can't "Next
FileId"
> be "Next Filename" instead?  Then we wouldn't need the numbers at all,
> except for distinguishing two files which would otherwise have identical
> DOSified names, for example.

True.  It's not relevant in my case of emulating a DFS, though.

James.

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