Re: Disk drive questions

From: Asbjørn Djupdal (Asbjorn.Djupdal_at_idi.ntnu.no)
Date: 2002-11-17 13:43:13

Ullrich von Bassewitz <uz@musoftware.de> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:39:28PM -0500, William Levak wrote:
> >
> > Yes, closing the command channel closes all files on the drive.
> 
> Thanks! Do you know if there is a reason for this behaviour?

It is very useful. If you reset your computer, all the BASIC channels
are closed, but are still left open on the drive. Instead of getting a
lot of splat files on the disk, just open and close channel 15.

Asbjørn

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