[Coco] time stamps wasRe: File size from Disk Basic

[Robert Gault]

theother_bob wrote:

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> While we're on the subject, how hard would it be to incorporate timestamps into the HDB-DOS directory? I think ADOS had this capability.
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There was not much room left in the RGBDOS ROM and probably less in the 
HDB-DOS ROM to add time stamp routines. There is some room left on the 
directory entries for a time stamp as long as you don't use EDTASM.

The second 16 bytes of each T17S3-T17S18 name entry is not used by DOS 
and left all $00s but that space is used by the EDTASM DOS.

If you added time stamps to the file header, then disk I/O would not be 
backwards compatible with DOS1.0 or 1.1.