Re: Turbo-C 2.0 absread() / abswrite()

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From: Fogbound Child
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 23:44

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In article <367@shuksan.UUCP>, mikey@shuksan.UUCP (Mike Fields) writes...
>In article <1990Dec8.182707.28401@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, trier@cwlim.INS.CWRU.Edu (Stephen C. Trier) writes:
>> BIOS options exist to read 256-byte sectors.  When I initially got a C
>> compiler for a PC, one of my first projects was to try to read an OS-9
>> disk.  I was never able to get the transfer to work right.  (On the
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> 
>I have since (read the pax doc) found that that is how other people set
>the density - have a blank disk formatted with dos at the correct density,
>do a dir on it THEN use the drive as you see fit.  It works.
> 
>



Anybody had any success with TRS80 Mod I DSDD (360K) disks? The sectors are 
all numbered differently than MSDOS.

Specifically, I'd like to be able to read NEWDOS 80 v2 disks.

Anyone?


Thanks,
___Samuel___
goldstein@aerospace.aero.org

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