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Re: Pseudo-disk *almost* ready for the big time.
Alex Freed wrote:
"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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Alex Freed wrote:
Cool! It's a pleasure to see someone else whose HTML editor is
notepad! ;-)
Is not! Real programmers use vi. I use emacs.
Ok, now that's *really* cool!
It's been years since I used emacs (on a DEC-20), but I loved it.
It's a very consistent, simple program with a huge set of commands.
Since I was using it "occasionally", I was delighted with the "apropos"
command, which directed me to what I was looking for when I didn't
know what it was called. If only modern "help" systems were as
helpful! ;-)
"Real *hackers* use emacs." (..in the *original* sense, of course.)
BTW, it would be nice if you could partition a large SD card
into multiple ProDOS 32MB volumes, a large HFS volume, and the
remainder (maybe described as a magic "partition") as DOS nibble
images... ;-)
I'll meet you half way. 2 ProDOS volumes and the balance taken by the
nibble images. I guess I can make the ProDOS driver see the 2 partitions
as drives 1 and 2. And in nibble mode the LAST available partition will
be used. That means that if only one partition exists, nibble mode will use
it.
Sounds like a very workable solution for non-GS users, or small cards.
I don't know anything about HFS. As the project is open source, you can add
it if you wish.
AFAIK, it's just a note in the partition table (if there is one), and
GSOS takes care of what's in the blocks.
-michael
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