Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!polyslo!jearls From: jearls@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU ( Chumley The Troll ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: 35 track floppies Keywords: Formatting Message-ID: <1989Oct3.155906.12050@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 89 15:59:06 GMT Reply-To: jearls@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU ( Chumley The Troll ) Organization: M.Y.T.H., Inc. Lines: 28 In article <13251@athertn.Atherton.COM> paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander) writes: >This looks simple enough, but in my opinion the formatting of diskettes >should be done by the OS, not by an application. Again, I'll check to see >how far off-base I am in my assumptions. (I still can't believe I can't >do an INIT from the Applesoft prompt. But then I've always used the supplied >programs.) In any case, another tweek to the application must be done if >Apple decides to support 77-track 5.25" floppies in such a way that they plug >into a Disk ][ controller; such a tweek shouldn't be necessary. The device >driver should do right thing and make its functionality available to the >application. If you look in DOS 3.3, the formatting code took up almost half of the RWTS subroutines (the semi-equivalent of the Disk ][ driver). ProDOS is pushing its boundaries already; if they had included the formatting code it would have spilled over into main memory (or required 128k to run) long since... >-- >Paul Sander (408) 734-9822 | If you must describe both quantity and >paul@Atherton.COM | quality of someone else's code, try >{decwrl,pyramid,sun}!athertn!paul | "awful lot." - John -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Chumley@Bazaar.Deva.COM | -aka- EARLSJ@AFAL-Edwards.AF.MIL | If two wrongs don't make a right, -aka- jearls@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU | try three...