Date   : Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:51:50 GMT
From   : hick@... (gARetH baBB)
Subject: Re: 3.5 inch disc in Master

In message <23.199903171730.RAA16339@...>,
          john@... (John Lindley) wrote:

> B and not my master! What I was asking, and I really want to double check,
> is will move, or the file copyer, work copying files from one filing
> system to another. Because I'm almost certain you can't read DFS discs

Yes.

The Master OS had the first beginings of FileSwitch - you can reference any
filing system in the path, so you could use:

*move -adfs-file -disc-file

and it would copy between filing systems.

You can use this anywhere, so you can for instance open a file on a specific
FS by:

x=OPENIN"-adfs-file"

One programming consequence of this is that the page FF jumps for OSBGet,
OSBPut etc. no longer do an indirect jump to the RAM vector but now point
into ROM, which determines which FS to switch in and then jumps to the
indirect vector.