Hi,
Just to chime in, the newest SMSQmulator (hopefully) to come out in a
few days will do the same, i.e. treat NFA/SFA as win type.
There is a reason for (at least for me):
I use QD extensively.
When QD saves data to a file, it first of all checks the device type via
iof.xinf. If it detects that the drive is registered as a an msdos type
device, it saves the file with line ending CR+LF, instead of the normal
LF as used on win devices.
If you now try to use the MacroAssembler to assemble a file that
contains macros, this will fail (the MA seems to calculate the number of
bytes it has got, which will be wrong as the NFA driver converts CF+LF
to LF automagically) The MA then resets the file position to somewhere
in the file, corresponding to the number of bytes before the macro (I
suppose to read th emacro again) and that will be wrong, so that it
reads something other in the file and then fails.
That being said, might I make a suggestion?
Giorgio said:
>>>> The old behavior was that DMEDIUM_DRIVE returned -1 when pointing
>>>> to a dos disk. it was not "correct" but it allowed me to distinguish the
>>>> two
>>> types.
Indeed, that's not the right way, one should use the DMEDIUM_TYPE
function for that (returns 1 - qdos, 2 - msdos etc) - but this won't
help you, as that now returns "qdos" device type for dos and nfa/sfa.
However, the specifications also provide for a device sub-type, which is
not returned by any function and which, AFAIK is not used. One might
possibly use that to return 1 or 2 as sub-type also.
I'd be willing to create the new basic keyword for that in SMSQE
("DMEDIUM_STYPE").
Would that be agreeable to all?
Have fun!
Wolfgang
>>>> what do i need it for?
>>>> I use it in a couple of programs .. in particular the new file manager
>>> that
>>>> I have created and which I think I will be able to publish in a few
>>>> weeks. Obviously
>>>> it works the same but in front of each device he placed an icon to be
>>> able
>>>> to identify it if cd / ram / win / dos It would be interesting to be
>>>> able
>>>> to distinguish all the types but obviously I have no idea of the work
>>> this
>>>> entails. Mine is not a criticism, I'm just chatting.
>>>>
>>>> Giorgio
>>>>
>>>> Il giorno ven 26 nov 2021 alle ore 10:09 Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users <
>>>> ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>>> Giorgio Garabello via Ql-Users wrote:
>>>>>>> I uploaded a small bugfix release QPC2v5.02.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Switch DMEDIUM_FORMAT for the DOS device to 1 (QDOS) instead of 2
>>>>>> I have a doubt, how can I now recognize a DOS disk from a WIN one?
>>>>> It has been this way for 20 years, I just reverted it back to the
>>>>> old behavior.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why would you want to recognize a DOS disk from a WIN one?
>>>>>
>>>>> Marcel
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