Frode Tenneboe wrote: > > > On the filetypes subject: > > > > How about having a reserved text field of say 32 bytes at the start of each > > file which allows the user/utility to bung a tag in there. This would > > remove the need for someone to be appointed as magic-number allocator since > > I'm sure everybody could work out a unique enough tag for a file. > > But why have such a tag anyway? I see no pratical use for it. >
I agree. It's up to the application to recognise its own files, and ignore any others. BASIC programs can always be stored with their own header, so they can still be loaded as BASIC programs. It's a shame that the Sam didn't start out this way. What about code files? Will their loading address just be part of the header (like size/depth is to a bitmap?)?. With Unix and MS-DOS code files, they are relocated, and don't have absolute loading addresses, but this can't _easily_ be done with the Sam. Si +------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | Si Owen | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Wordcraft International Ltd, UK | Fax: +44-1332-295525 | +------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+
