Re: Moving binary files to /RAM

[email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams)]

Laine Houghton <laine@intergate.com> wrote:

<snip>
> 
> Do you remember this program?
> http://tinyurl.com/6lq6a

Ha! I'd forgotten all about it...

> You could modifiy it to delete /Ram files and load all bin files from /disk
> to /Ram
> 
>  210 D$ = CHR$ (4) : DIM KILL$ (50)
>  220 PN$ ="/RAM"
>  280 PRINT D$;"OPEN";PN$;",TDIR"
>  290 PRINT D$;"READ";PN$
>  292 FOR X=1 TO 3
>  295 INPUT DIR$ : REM SKIP HEADER
>  297 NEXT : X=0
>  300 INPUT DIR$
>  320 IF DIR$  = "" GOTO 360 : REM BLANK LINE
>  330 KILL$ (X) = MID$ (DIR$,2, 16)
>  340 X = X + 1
>  350 GOTO 300
>  360 PRINT D$;"CLOSE" : X = X-1
>  370 FOR LOOP =0 TO X
>  380 PRINT D$ ;  "DELETE /RAM/"; KILL$(LOOP)
>  390 NEXT : END
<snip>

So... looking at this, I'm seeing that we can open and read a directory
in exactly the same way as a text file. I wish I'd have realised this
several years ago!
-s
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