Date   : Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:16:49 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Acorn Winchester formatting...

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 10:59 +0100, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Can ADFS and DFS coexist "at once" in a system? I know the ROMs will happily, 
> but can they both be active so that I can copy something from ADFS to DFS (or 
> vice-versa)?

Yes.  In fact, IIRC, the default position is for both of them to be
active, so you could do something like:

*ADFS
*LOAD filename 2000
*DISC
*SAVE filename 2000 3000

There are a handful of utility progams ("copier", etc) that will
automate this kind of thing.

With the Master MOS you can include a temporary filesystem as part of
the file specifier for *COPY.  (This doesn't work on OS 1.20.)  I think
the syntax is something along the lines of "*COPY -ADFS-filename
-DISC-filename" but some experimentation might be required.

p.