From: Jim Brain (brain_at_jbrain.com)
Date: 2008-01-10 17:04:31
ruud.baltissen@abp.nl wrote:
> Then I want to discuss an idea. I don't know if I can call this idea
> mine, maybe somebody already mentioned it, but at least it is a
> combination of more ideas. The idea is to let a file point to another
> image. The extension of this file will be D64. The needed commands will
> be MI, CI and RI (Make, Change and Remove Image).
>
I sketched out plans for this in uIEC as well, though I had not assigned
DOS commands to these items. I had planned to simply let an image be a
regular file, but I would allow the user to CD into the file, IN this
way, R-I would simply be "SCRATCH", You could make a partition by simply
saving a D64 file (though MI makes sense to auto-create an empty image),
but what would CI do?
Should they be simply these 2 letter mnemonics, or go with the idea of
Memory-Write and be M-I, C-I, and R-I?
However, from the idea perspective, I like it. I'd rather not make it
too tied to the FS, since you could have a regular file on a CF disk in
FAT format be a .D64 file, and you'd want the drive to allow you to use
it as a disk.
Jim
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