> On 2021-12-13, at 20:32, groepaz_at_gmx.net wrote: > >>>>> All the sd2iec-based drives do FAT (16 and 32), and I think 1541U does >>>>> as well.>> >>>> Ok, but is the FAT filesystem accessible natively from the Commodore >>>> computer? Or is the the FAT support an underlying layer to put the disk >>>> image files on?> >>> The FAT fs is natively accessible. You can store a multi-megabyte file in >>> the card and access it directly with open commands. Also, I wrote the >>> native FS rel file support, which I believe will handle positioning to >>> any byte in a 2^32-1 sized file >> The thing about SEQ and REL files is that they are handled by CBM DOS, >> aren't they? >> >> What about writing to the filesystem directly? Not as SEQ, PRG or REL files, >> but as any format (again, examples) like TXT, WAV or whatever the software >> defines? Sort of what DOS in a x86 would do, I mean. > > How is writing .prg files not writing to the filesystem directly? Whats > stopping you from writing .wav format? My guess is he believes that MS-DOS was somehow special and that f. e. what is put after the period in file name constitutes "file format". Which in reality it does not. In reality Commodore DOS was more special/sophisticated in this regards than msdos.Received on 2021-12-14 00:02:19
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