Date   : Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:24:10 +0200
From   : John Kortink <kortink@...>
Subject: Re: *INFO

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:43:50 +0100, "Tennant" wrote:

>My dad is using a BBC Master 128 which has a version of Watford DFS
>(modified by someone on this list for use on the Master). He used to
make
>extensive use of the *INFO command when he had a BBC to establish how
much
>space etc. was left on a disk. However the command seems to be
completely
>ignored by the Master (no error message, no attempt to access the disk
etc.)
>Anybody know a way to get the command to work, or an alternative means
of
>obtaining the information (he currently resorts to *COMPACT but that's a
>very slow way of achieving the goal).

*Info and *Ex are 'special' on the Master. The MOS interprets
them, then relays them to the filing system via OSFSC calls.
Unfortunately a beeb DFS like Watford DFS won't know about
these calls since they are Master specific.

You'll have to use a star-command prefix character to 'reach'
the Watford DFS versions of *Info and *Ex. Try *OInfo and *OEx
instead of *Info and *Ex.


John Kortink

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