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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] RE: Couple of disk questions

2014-01-04 by Gordon JC Pearce

On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 01:03:23PM -0800, nossbocaj@gmail.com wrote:
> When I read the disks, I interpret the FF ones as deleted.  But I suspect that it also could be the old name if it was renamed. However that's just a suspicion.
>  
> 
>  Michael, most of the files are fixed sizes like CO and VC, so getting the size of those is not a problem. But some files, like sequences, can have different sizes. Where is that info? By the way, I've spent a lot of hours reading your source code, but since there's so many lines of code because of the great functionality, I haven't found that info.
>  

In MDOS it's the sector pointed to by the directory entry, apparently:

http://exorsim.sourceforge.net/mdos-tech.html

I suspect QDOS uses something similar.

Incidentally, this extracts .wav files from .IMDs without any tedious mucking about with Imagedisk (which is a source of anguish on non-DOS systems):

https://github.com/gordonjcp/cmidisk

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