[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] DSK images to coco

[Mark Marlette]

At 02:21 AM 5/2/2005, you wrote:

Actually as I understand it. VERIFYON is for writting but performs a READ 
of the written sector in to the buffer which is right before or after the 
write buffer and then a compare of the buffer is performed. A VF? error is 
returned if what was written was not read.

Mark


>Actually, verify is only used under RSDOS for writing, not reading, if the
>VERIFY ON command has been issued.
>
>Art
>
>
>On Sun, 1 May 2005 jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>
> > Correct in that you can poke the RSBASIC to read a 512 byte sector
> > but in doing that you can not verify what you read.
> >
> > It would have been so nice to have had basic allocate two 256 byte
> > buffers for read/write and another two 256 byte buffers for verify.
> >
> > james
> >
> >
> > On 1 May 2005 at 12:29, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> >
> > To:                   coco at maltedmedia.com
> > From:                 "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net>
> > Date sent:            Sun, 01 May 2005 12:29:06 -0400
> > Subject:              [Coco] Re: [Color Computer] DSK images to
> > coco
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> > > On the other hand, I have discovered that the COCO under ROM BASIC and
> > > read and write the first 256 bytes of the 512 byte sectored media.
> > > Actually it can read and write the full 512 bytes if you use peeks and
> > > pokes.  The upper 256 bytes are in the read/write verify buffer.
> >
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