[Coco] OS9 directory from BASIC

[theother_bob]

I've been contemplating it... would be interested in any thoughts in that regard. 
First you'd have to determine 40 or 80 track and (perhaps temporarily) patch basic to read 80 tracks. Then I suppose it's just a matter of parsing the directory structure... 
I don't know how safe it would be to use an 80 track patch while an HDB-DOS hard drive is in use. Parhaps use a ramdisk to store the directory data, then remove the patch.
It would make a great module for ColorFOG.

theother_bob

----- Original Message ----
From: Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 7:11:29 PM
Subject: [Coco] OS9 directory from BASIC


Hi people,

Has anyone here ever tried to write a BASIC programme to read a directory 
from an OS9 disk?

I'm thinking about all the times I've wanted to see what's on an os9 disk, 
but really didn't want to take the time to boot up into OS9.

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