Re: Hardware gadget for tape loading

["Chris Young" <unsatisfactory@bigfoot.com>]

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:07:21 +0100, Darren Salt (of comp.sys.sinclair "fame")
wibbled on for an age:

> > (It's a shame some OSes only support 3-letter extensions. [...]
> 
> Hmm. RISC OS doesn't recognise filename extensions at all on Filecore-based
> filing systems such as ADFS and provides extension-to-filetype mapping in
> DOSFS and CDFS (and 3rd-party FSes of this type), so unless we're going to
> allocate yet more filetype numbers...

Agreed.  All the formats are identical, so they should have the same
filetype identifier (be it extension, filetype or whatever).  Of
course, if you can identify files by actually looking at the first few
bytes, then there's no way to differentiate anyway.

Of course, we might need some "TZX Launchers" that can interpret the
"machine type" field and send the file to the correct emulator on
double-click.

Chris
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