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Author:  MIRKOSOFT [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:10 am ]
Post subject:  How to show SCRATCHED files?

Hi!

As everybody know, if file is scratched, it's only not visible in directory, it's disk-allocated space is free until is overwritten.

So, I want to ask that how to show SCRATCHED files which are still not overwritten in directory?

Commodore has standard files PRG, SEQ, USR, REL, DEL, CBM files, but I want to show these files as SCR - scratched, of course locked files have < char as indicator.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks for every help.

Miro

Author:  Diddl [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How to show SCRATCHED files?

You have to read blocks directly from disc (directory blocks). For a 1571 you have to read sector at track 18 sector 1 and further on (next sector from first two bytes)

To read blocks directly you open a buffer "#" and send "U1" command. (Alternatively burst read commands ... - not nessecary here).

Each directory entry has 32 bytes if I correctly remember it. But this is very good documented, look for D64 description.

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