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From: Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Some questions...
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Date: 10 Feb 91 13:25:16 GMT
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entropy@ai.mit.edu (entropy) writes:

> Can somebody with some documentation give me information on the
> Flopfmt and Protobt XBIOS calls?

Flopfmt() formats an entire track on your disk. It may be used for 9 or
10 sector formats. 11 sectors are not accepted! In TOS 1.02 or higher you
may pass interleave and spiral factor -- TOS 1.00 seems not to evaluate
these parms.

> On an unrelated note, is there any legitimate way to increase the size
> of the RS-232 buffer?

Hmmm ... legitimate? :-)

You may get the control blocks with Iorec() and change the pointers to
the input and output buffers. Don't forget to restore them when terminating
your program!!! This method works and I'd think it's legal, since you use
documented structures and sys calls.

Daniel