[Coco] Weird SDC Issue

[Robert Gault]

For what it is worth, on my system names do not need to start with / . Further, if you look in
"Coco SDC (rev A) (Darren Atkinson).pdf"
you will see
p. 15  DIR "GAMES/"    where a terminal / is used to list everything in a folder but no leading / .
p. 16-18  several examples of DRIVE 0,"name" where there is never a leading /  .

So why would you consider not using a leading / dangerous?

Robert

Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> I always start my absolute SDC paths with /, and it always works.
> _Not_ doing that that seems "dangerous" to me.
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:55 PM Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>>
>> Ed,
>>
>> Hard to tell if that was a typo or intentional. The command should be
>> DRIVE 0,"HDBDOS.DSK" or perhaps DRIVE 0,"VHD/HDBDOS.DSK". In short, you
>> don't want to start with a / as it makes no sense.
>> If the path is not correct, you may not get an error message but you certainly
>> will not get a disk change, so SDCX.DSK will still be mounted.
>>
>> Also you can check to see what get mounted with
>> DRIVE
>> and you will get the list of the 4 mounted drives.
>>
>> Robert