On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 at 12:18:34, you wrote:
(ref: <000701c1b1cf$21dad260$0100a8c0@gamma>)
>Fran�ois Van Emelen writes:
>
>> Sorry,my question didn't refer to your animation. I'll rephrase it.
>> The slave blocks grab some memory and DEL_DEFB releases some. Is the
>> released memory the one grabbed by th slave blocks?
>> fran�ois Van Emelen
>
>DEL_DEFB deletes all drive defininition blocks in memory, having the effect
>of flushing slave blocks and resetting all directory devices to the state
>they were in before they were read first time, ie it forces a re-read of all
>directory devices next time theyre used. This prevents problems with drives,
>that may have been removed meantime,
... and floppies that have been removed, changed on say a PC, and
replaced in the QL drive. That is the more common scenario.
>
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