Yes he has, but I will try George's suggestion just in case, as it will only take a miniscule amount of time to try and if it delivers a result it will have been an excellent investment as the cost is miniscule. Obviously I am not hopeful as Marcel has given it the thumbs down.
Its a pity that QPC2 does not support direct sector access to alien formats as other versions of the QL do. I can read FAT 16 formatted sectors on a CF card on my Q60 from SBASIC transfer from PC to Q60. Absence of this can't be to stop users doing something stupid to their C:\ drive as I can open a direct sector access channel to this and read in the sectors of this drive and presumably screw up windows completely if I write rubbish out to it. Windows has some way of supporting alien formats as the PD Amiga emulators can read Amiga formatted disks and QXLtool can read QL floppy disks from a PC and QXL.win files, but as you say only Marcel can know if this windows process is compatible with QPC2. Regards & thanks to you and George and Marcel for the interest Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Ralf Reköndt <ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de> To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:29 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and direct sector access I think, Marcel has answered...it doesn't work. Cheers...Ralf ----- Original Message ----- From: "gdgqler" >> Does anyone know if there is a way to open a direc t sector access >> channel from SBASIC to a non PC FAT formatted hard disk such as a >> Q60 formatted compact flash card. I have tried to do this with >> errt=FOP_DIR(#4,dos4_). While FOP_DIR returns 0 suggesting success >> the device as seen has a dimension of 0, so that INPUT#4,a$ get an >> end of file error message. > > Does the error just mean that there is no LF in the file? I have taken > to testing for a final LF before reading files with INPUT. Instead you > might try Turbo TK code's INPUT$ which reads a specific number of > characters from the channel. and so does not rely on LF. > > George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
