Date   : Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:40:31 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: more ADFS

Mark Usher wrote:
> can anyone confirm that ADFS 1.30 (BBC) uses OSWORD &72 for it's disc
> access and not it's own routines directly.
 
I can confirm that ADFS does /not/ use OSWORD &72 for it's disk access,
and it /does/ use it's own routines directly.
 
Osword &72 calls the routines that the filing system code calls.
 
This is consistant (if annoying) across all Acorn's filing systems. 
Osword &7F calls the routines DFS uses.  The Network filing system calls
the routines that Osword &14 (NetTX) calls.
 
HADFS, though, /does/ call the routines that access the disk through
Osword (because it has to, not through choice).
 
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