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Article #4790AmigaDOS Filing System Block Format
From: Travers Naran
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 1990 12:36
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 1990 12:36
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I have some questions about this: 1. What are the "words" refered to in the AmiDOS Tech manual? Long words or normal 16 bit words? 2. The Checksum is confusing, the manual says "Each filing system block contains a checksum, where the sum (ignoring overflow) of all the words in the block is zero." Huh??? I thought a Checksum was the sum of all the words in the block (not including the Checksum) ignoring overflow? Or does that sentence mean that when I add up all the words in the block including the Checksum, I should get zero ingoring overflow? 3. T.SHORT and ST.ROOT, etc. where are these constants defined? 4. How do I get a subscription to AmigaMail? I live in Canada and the RKM's only talk about the U.S. mailing address. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Travers "T'aran" Naran (I am male) Simon Fraser University, Computing Science (Burnaby, B.C., Canada) New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, North America, etc... Whovian, Prober, Treker, Quantum Leaper.... Mailing addresses: Usenet Travers_Naran@mindlink.UUCP or uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Travers_Naran ------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a275 From: a275@mindlink.UUCP (Travers Naran) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: AmigaDOS Filing System Block Format Message-ID: <2761@mindlink.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 90 12:36:45 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 26