Re: Filename Wars

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <3mpihd$t3o@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>
dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes:
>[...munch, munch, chomp, yum yum...]
>Ah, I have the entire file-type list right here--
>
>T = ASCII Text file, either sequential or random
>I = Tokenized Integer BASIC program
>A = Tokenized Applesoft BASIC program
>B = Binary image file
>S = Undefined; many games and such use this for resource files
>R = Undefined, but Apple used it for Relocatable Ed/Asm files from the
>    DOS Tool Kit...a very useful set of utilities, I might add!
>A = Undefined
>B = Undefined, but Data Transforms used it for extended-screen graphic 
>    files with Fontrix ("graffiles").  In fact, the catalog routine in 
>    Fontrix changes this filetype to "G".

While we're on the subject, I discovered a curious thing a while back--the code
for the DOS 3.3 "BLOAD" command has provisions in it for dealing with the
"second B" file type.  It's not complete, so BLOAD can't actually do
anything useful with those files, but traces of a code stub are definitely
there.  One wonders what they had in mind for it...

Also, the ERS document for the DOS 3.3 FST in GSOS mentions something about
a file type "E", in addition to the eight standard file types.  I don't
suppose anybody out there has any idea what an "E" file was, and what its
file type code was?

               - Neil Parker