[Coco] dir entryRe: Emulator Disk sizes - was Crunch? Urbane
Willard Goosey
goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Mon Jun 1 22:13:39 EDT 2009
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:56:56PM -0400, Robert Gault wrote:
> There are also problems with support programs that create disk images,
> as many do not create valid Disk Basic directories. The second 16 bytes
> of each directory entry should be all $00 if unused. If that is not
> true, Tandy's Disk EDTASM+ will fail as it uses those 16 bytes to
> determine file sizes.
There are also native DECB programs that do that. I forget which one
it was, but I had a lot of trouble with one of the big word processor
/ text editor programs with that, when I was trying to use it with
EDTASM.
Willard
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