[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] DSK images to coco

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Arthur 

Yes but after a write the computer reads what was written and 
compares two buffers. The verify command must do a read of what 
it had written. That read goes to the verify buffer. Then the two 
buffers are compared. 

james

On 2 May 2005 at 3:21, Arthur Flexser wrote:

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Subject:        	Re: [Coco] Re: [Color Computer] DSK 
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> Actually, verify is only used under RSDOS for writing, not reading, if
> the VERIFY ON command has been issued.  
> 
> Art
> 
> 
> On Sun, 1 May 2005 jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> 
> > Correct in that you can poke the RSBASIC to read a 512 byte sector
> > but in doing that you can not verify what you read. 
> > 
> > It would have been so nice to have had basic allocate two 256 byte
> > buffers for read/write and another two 256 byte buffers for verify. 
> > 
> > james
> > 
> > 
> > On 1 May 2005 at 12:29, John E. Malmberg wrote:
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> > Date sent:      	Sun, 01 May 2005 12:29:06 -0400
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> > > On the other hand, I have discovered that the COCO under ROM BASIC
> > > and read and write the first 256 bytes of the 512 byte sectored
> > > media. Actually it can read and write the full 512 bytes if you
> > > use peeks and pokes.  The upper 256 bytes are in the read/write
> > > verify buffer.
> > 
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