Date   : Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:38:24 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: MDFS - Hard disc error 98...who cares...CAVE lives!

>Message-ID: <B6CC5E493F627343A58CD268A25FCF004C0903CA@...>
 
"Wright, Chris" <Chris.Wright@...> wrote:
> I intend to unzip on the PC and transfer to the beeb on 3.5" floppy. As
> this is non RISCOS, how can I preserve the load/exec addresses ? Wait
> for the .SSD ?
 
Don't unzip on the PC, unzip on the Beeb with my BBCUnZip or
Sprow's UnZip. Note that they both will only unzip uncompressed
zipfiles, eg ones created with 'ZIP file.zip path -0'.
 
> There is a call to *PUTGET in the !BOOT. What does this do ? We never
 
It implements buffered BGET/BPUT to speed up sequential byte
accesses. Always better to write the program properly in the first
place with OSGBPB, though.
 
> I've also copied CAVE off for anyone else who wants a copy (which was
> why I booted the thing up in the first place).
 
Yes please. Be interesting in an archeaologial manner :)
 
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