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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sources in text mode please
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Date: 21 May 88 06:05:27 GMT
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In <3143@bsu-cs.UUCP>, jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters) writes:
>In article <1758@van-bc.UUCP>, lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>   There remains only one small problem. ZOO does not work on any device
>> that uses the new file system ...
>
>   All the file io in the Amiga version of zoo is done through either the
>dos.library,  stdio routines from the C compiler and one use of a packet
>(the setdate packet that was added in 1.2).  It does nothing that bypasses
>the handler and makes no assumptions about the disk block.

 Fascinating. I'm glad you posted this. I couldn't see any reason for you
to bypass the handler, and it's a relief to hear you didn't. It does,
however, bring up the question of what's broken. Could it be one of the
stdio calls in the compiler?

 As far as I've been able to see (I didn't spend a lot of time on it), the
new file system differs only in the data blocks themselves, having no
pointers or checksum info, and 512 bytes of pure data. Hope you figure it
out.

  While I have you on the line, I want to thank you for removing the
restrictions concerning the posting of Zoo on commercial services.

-larry

--
Janus? Well, look at it this way. If you squint a little, the J could be
       Amiga checkmark, and the rest of the word describes MsDos.
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