[zxspectrum] Re: ESXDOS


-----Messaggio Originale----- Da: <mguerreiro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
A: "Enrico Maria Giordano" <e.m.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Data invio: giovedì 20 ottobre 2005 15.01
Oggetto: Re: ESXDOS


> Why don't use +D syntax like
>
> CAT d1, SAVE d1, etc.
>
> extended as
>
> CAT did, SAVE did, etc.
>
> where id would be the device id?

To be honest, most of the sintax/system was influenced by +D (which is what I
used before). But, due to the ammount of different devices you can have on
esxdos, it was decided to add another identifier before the 'did'. Just
imagine you have:

1x LS-120 Floppy Disk (fd0)
2x FAT partitions (hd0, hd1)
1x TAP file (td0)
1x TRD drive (vd0)

Strictly following +D scheme you'd have d1,d2,d3,d4 and d5. 

I was thinking about something like

CAT dfd0, SAVE dfd0, etc.

but honestly I'm not convinced anymore.

Other thing is, there was no command on +D to change dir (I think there was
with UniDOS, but I never used it, do you know how they did it there?),


http://www.ramsoft.bbk.org/tech/mgt_tech.txt

Best regards.

EMG

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