Re: MS-DOS FST? => Resources

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <1993May6.142208.1548@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu> rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY) writes:
> In article <1993May6.115821.792@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
> > 
> > I would have thought that read-only support wouldn't take much code,
> > but it really is tight - they had to go to 65C02 instructions to be
> > able to fit the Smartport drive remapping code in 2.0.
> 
> It doesn't take too much code to read a fork of an extended file in ProDOS 8.
> I did it.

No, but my point is that there is almost no space left in the language
card (probably less than 16 bytes).

> > Hey, maybe a IIgs-only patch to P8?  :-)
> 
> How will that help? The language card isn't any bigger in a IIgs

No, but the rest of memory is a lot bigger.  The patch could call some
additional code which was located in bank $02 or higher (allocated
using the memory manager).
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