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From: entropy@ai.mit.edu (entropy)
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Subject: Re: Some questions...
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Date: 11 Feb 91 01:30:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org's message of 10 Feb 91 13:25:16 GMT

In article <828235@fiction> Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org writes:

>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.

Uhm, thanks...I suppose I wasn't specific enough.  I know what the
function does, I don't know what parameters to give it.  Perhaps
someone could post a piece of code to format drive A with 80 tracks
and 9 sectors and write the proper boot sector?  I can handle it from
there.

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

> Hmmm ... legitimate? :-)

Preferably.  "Legitimate" memeaning "Not using undocumented features"
or alternately "anything Allan Pratt won't get upset about." (Hi
Allan! :-)

> 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.

OK, could you document the structures and sys calls for me?  I'm
posting these questions because I don't have any documentation, not
because I'm too lazy to RTFM.  Restoring the pointers is not an issue
because I'm using this in a TSR and I _want_ the new buffer to stay in
effect after termination.

Many thanks,
 entropy