Jan Bredenbeek via Ql-Users wrote: > This has always been the problem with substitution devices. One solution > would be to rewrite the io.fstrg/fs.headr/etc code to substitute the > filenames read as well (essentially chop off the directory path > substituted). In case of io.fstrg this means checking if the channel is > opened for directory access, then check if the data read would be a file > header (length=64), then change the filename read accordingly. In your own > example when using INKEY$ from BASIC this would fail because INKEY$ reads > one byte at a time (using io.fbyte).
Has anybody got the source code to the SUB device? It does this kind of substitutions. > Another solution would be to make the DIR command 'substitution-aware' so > it would recognise a substituted device and act accordingly. But then you have to do the same for QPAC2, QMenu, ... Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
