[Coco] LIF util for OS-9?

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Yikes

I remember those old HP tape drive computers. I still did like HP Basic though. Wrote a lot of 
test software using the HP computers. 

james

On 1 Nov 2011 at 20:05, Willard Goosey wrote:

> Yesterday I spent over 4 hours reverse-engineering HP's old LIF
> filesystem.  Then I discovered a great reference about it on the
> web. ;-)  
> 
> Another example of "An hour in the library can save you a week in the
> laboratory."  http://www.hp9845.net/9845/projects/hpdir
> 
> (In brief, LIF is a simple disk or random-block tape filesystem that
> lots of old HP hardware used before FAT took over the universe.)
> 
> In my defense, I had fun, and the last time I wondered about this the
> web had NO pages giving the technical description of LIF.
> 
> Anyway, as an industrial, real-time OS I find it hard to believe that
> there wasn't already an OS-9 program to read/write LIF disks, Although
> I'd be willing to accept that there was never a CoCo version.
> 
> So, would anybody be interested in such a program, and be willing to
> help test it by feeding it disks from a wide variety of old HP gear?
> 
> Willard
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