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

[Arthur Flexser]

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:
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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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