Date   : Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:05:00 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Master ethernet upgrade

Sprow wrote:
>    Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > Petrov DOSFS puts the load&exec in 12-15 and 16-19.
> 
> Windows actively zeros the reserved fields, and may even fault duff looking
> creation times (eg. where the seconds byte is > 60) - I can't remember -
> which effectively rules them out.
> 
> I'd also say it's generally not a good idea to store data in fields marked
> as reserved for that very reason,
 
Yes, I stopped using Petrov DOSFS very much because the slightest
touch by a Windows machine screwed up addresses. It's useful for
doing quick&dirty copying to&from DOS disks. Nowadays I tend to put
the DOS disks in the A5000 and drop eveything over to the server
from there.
 
Even with RISC OS, if Pretov DOS FS stores a load address of
&FFFBBC00, which is filetyped to &BBC, RISC OS doesn't see it. It
only sees the filetype if DOS FS has stored &000BBC00, which is a
bit pants.
 
I tend to zip things on the Beeb before putting the zip archive on
a DOS disk nowadays to keep all the metadata.
 
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