Date   : Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:57:05 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: xFER

Sprow wrote:
> Infact Edit specifically guards against this, but in a different way:
>   It does OSArgs to read the FS id
>   For id's of >= 4 it tries OSFile to get the catalogue info
>   For id's of < 4 (including ROMFS) it just crosses its fingers
 
Ditto Z80 BASIC where if FSID>=4 it assumes it can save a dummy
file before OPENOUTing it, otherwise, just goes ahead with opening
it.
 
...and probably several other bits of code which I can't remember
as it's become second nature ;)
 
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