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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Asynch floppy IO
Message-ID: <6575@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 23:24:47 GMT
References: <890403170253.204022be@elcc.epfl.ch> <6496@cbmvax.UUCP> <2214@cpoint.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2214@cpoint.UUCP> steve@cpoint.UUCP (Stephen Steir) writes:
>I would like to make Asynchronous (sp?) floppy IO calls in an application
>that I'm writing (using SendIO perhaps) but I also want the files to be
>Amiga-DOS compatible.  Does IO source code exist for making AReads and
>AWrites so I don't have to write file system managment code as well?

	I wouldn't try it using trackdisk.device.  Possible, but almost as
tricky as writing an FS.  I would use asynchronous packets sent to the
filesystem.  Take a look at the DOS technical reference manual and 
libraries/dosextens.h.

	I believe you could scarf some code from some fish disk programs
that implement SendPacket(), etc.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup