Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FFS on Floppies in 2.0
Message-ID: <13261@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 17 Jul 90 21:31:03 GMT
References: <24692@snow-white.udel.EDU> <24729@estelle.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <24729@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:

>I have a backup program I've written that relies on some of the (as of 1.2)
>undocumented disk structure like directory header block formats and such.  

Uh, this stuff was documented back before 1.0.  Not well, but the structure
of directory, file, extension blocks, etc. was documented in "The AmigaDOS
Technical Reference Manual", one of the rather thin books in the original
Amiga developer "Phone Book" series.  I think this eventually got put in
with the other AmigaDOS stuff that wound up in the Bantam AmigaDOS manual.
About the only thing not documented at all was the "whys" of the various
allocation decisions.  Which, of course, has changed several times anyway.




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