Date   : Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:52:51
From   : "neil f" <faz@...>
Subject: Re: How to *SPOOL result of *INFO?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf
> Of Jonathan Graham Harston
> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 8:29 AM
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] Re: How to *SPOOL result of *INFO?
>
> >Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610051119060.20914@...>
>
> Chris Johns <chris@...> wrote:
> > > Is there a way to do this using *SPOOL? If I do:
> > > *SPOOL files
> > > *INFO *.*
> > > *SPOOL
> > > I just get and empty text file.
> > I think this is due to some crapness in DFS, you could probably
>
> It is indeed crappiness on behalf of DFS, especially when it is so
> easy to avoid. You can *SPOOL all disk operations on HADFS.
>
> DFS surrounds all disk operation displays with *FX3,16/*FX3,oldval The
> following code fixes this:
>
>   P%=&380:[CMP #3:BNE &385:RTS:JMP 0
>   !&386=!&20A:?&20A=&80:?&20B=3
>
> This intercepts all *FX3 calls and ignores them. Now doing
>   *SPOOL file
>   *INFO *.*
>   *SPOOL
> works as expected.
>

Thanks for that, Jonathan.

When I cut and past that code and run it as Basic I get a syntax
error for the second line. Ignoring the error and then doing a
*Spool etc still produces an empty file. Where am I going wrong?
(I'm using DFS on a Master BTW.)

-Neil F.



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