Date   : Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:20:08 +0100
From   : adsb@... (Andrew Benham)
Subject: Acorn Winchester formatting...

David Harper wrote:
> 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)?
> 
> You can certainly do this on the Master, and there is a *-command to do it.
> 
> Wasn't this (temporary filing systems, etc.) one of the principal new ideas 
> incorporated in the Master ROM?

Yes.  And the command to copy is, of course, called *MOVE

The syntax is something like   *MOVE -ADFS-:0.$.DIR.FILE -DISK-:1.$

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Andrew Benham           adsb@...       
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The gates in my computer are AND OR and NOT, not "Bill".