Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!tornado!sideways!terros From: terros@sideways.gen.nz (Dave Sainty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: BBC MICRO Rom Filing System Keywords: BBC MICRO, ROM FILING SYSTEM, Begging letter Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 12:58:57 GMT References: <8251@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Organization: Sideways Bulletin Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Lines: 22 > In stephenm@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (M90) writes > > > >I have set of programs that I wish to install into a BBC model B under the R > > >I may have to go spelunking in the manuals and find out how to do this > >myself, but surely someone out there has already invented this particular wh > >and could supply me with a natty little basic program that will take a set o > >programs and create the headers and calculate the CRCs and create a rom imag > > >I would like to use the RFS rather than anything else so that I can run a !B > >file and also *cat the files. > > >Mark Stephens. > If you can, I suggest writing your own filing routines. I did some experimenting with the RFS a while ago, and it's slow! slower than disc at any rate! But if you really want a program to do this, I think I wrote one a while ago. I could try finding it and posting to the .binaries group.