[Coco] DECB FAT question

[Bob Devries]

Willard,
I believe that Disk Basic will honour those allocated sectors. Unless a 
programme does its own disk IO, it is likely that they will be safe. Even if 
the programme does do its own IO, I would think that they will be safe. The 
only exception that I'm aware of would be the LOGO programme, which didn't 
use any disk structure at all, and merely used the first quarter to half of 
the disk. Graphicaom also used no disk structure in a similar way, but I 
believe that it checked to see if the disk was empty first (I could be 
wrong, it has been a long time...)

Hope it helps

--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: [Coco] DECB FAT question


>
> So, one thing I've been wondering:  Are there any Disk BASIC programs
> that will ignore allocated granule chains in the FAT if they don't
> have a directory entry?
>
> For example, my evil hybrid CP/M - CoCo disk.  The first 32 granules
> are marked as a single file in the CoCo FAT, but I didn't create a
> directory entry for that chain.  Are there programs out there that
> would have a problem with this?
>
> Willard
> -- 
> Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
> Socorro, New Mexico, USA
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