[Coco] DriveWire with filesizes not divisible by 256

CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts coco at maltedmedia.com
Sun May 11 18:07:45 EDT 2014


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:03 PM, CoCoList for Color Computer
Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> Ok, I think I understand the point Aaron was getting at... Thanks.
> I'm used to working at "file level" and was thinking he was implying that it would be writing the '0' padding to disk as well. But I see he means what dw4 will be sending to the 256 byte system buffer (basically), the rest would be sorted out by DECB or OS9 as normal. Basically transparent to even the system. It will always be the same size reads and writes on the DW end.
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> I got it now (I think) LOL.
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> @Aaron, would this affect the way the vports send and receive? Or would they remain the same?
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The only change would be that the UI wouldn't pop an an error and say
"Hey you can't load that file, it isn't the right size!" in certain
cases.  It's literally that simple.  No changes to any operations
anyone uses now :)



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