On Jan 15, at 13:31 | Jan15, David Tubbs wrote:
> At 11:08 14/01/2012 +0000, you wrote:
>> Does anyone know if it would be possible to reformat a WIN1_ partition on a
>> Qubide hard disk without losing the other partitions?
>>
>> It looks like the member's WIN1_ has a corrupt directory, with repeated
>> spurious names in the DIR list which can't be deleted.
>
> <snip>
>
>
>> Alternatively, does anyone know of a way of removing a single complete
>> directory in cases like this?
>> --
>
> Though I never had an HDD in a QL setup I would presume that it would use
> real directories rather than just very long file names. And in all
> probability use a similar deletion method to that in the DOS world, meaning
> ofcourse NONE, just an overwrite of the first char' of the name.
>
> Suggest looking at the disk with a HEX editor, DISCED would do that for
> floppies, must be somethong similar about for HDs.
Well no - QDOS unfortunately does not have sensible hard directories. The
'directory' is part of the file name.
There is a fudge that fools QDOS into not displaying the content using the
command MAKE_DIR.
This does work in a fashion but is very far from the Linux/DOS way.
One side effect of this is that sensible readable directory names are simply
not possible, especially where there are sub-directories.
One also has to allow for network prefixes, so the actual maximum length has to
be three less. ..... more if one has more than nine (or is it 10) networked
QLs!
Is there such a thing as n0?
Tony
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