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From: mjw@aluxp.UUCP (Michael Weber)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: EPYX Fast Load and "Edit Disk" function
Message-ID: <319@aluxp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 12:53:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: aluxp.319
Posted: Fri May  2 12:53:32 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 3-May-86 09:41:39 EDT
References: <273@nbs-amrf.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjw@aluxp.UUCP (Michael Weber)
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Lines: 27
Keywords: HEX
Summary: EPXY Fast Load uses HEX

In article <273@nbs-amrf.UUCP> sauder@nbs-amrf.UUCP writes:

>...      According to my 1541 reference manual, the location of the
>directory information resides on track 18.  However, when I
>attempted to use the "Edit Disk" function of my EPYX Fast Load
>cartridge to alter track 18, I found no information on track 18.
>(According to the "Edit Disk" function, anyway)  I eventualy
>located the correct information on track 12, altered the hex code
>so that the program file was now a sequential file, and then
>proceeded to use the sequential file for its desired purpose.  My
>question, however, is this --  What is wrong with this particular
>function on Fast Load?  I know that the information was really on
>track 18.  Are all track numbers actually referenced by a number
>six less than the true number (i.e. 12 instead of 18)?
>
>Jeff Sauder     {seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!sauder

	Jeff the sector and track information on the EPYX Fast Load
cartdridge must entered in HEX.  18(DEC) = 12(HEX).  I believe you
may also enter decimal numbers if you precede them with a dollar 
sign. $18 = 12.

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