On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 06:27:31 +0100 "Aley Keprt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you (thanks to Andrew Collier as well).
> 
> So what's GDOS? A system software from MGT's ZX Spectrum disk interface 
> Disciple or Plus D?

GDOS - Disciple
G+DOS - +D

(What does the G stand for?)

> I'd like to know what are those 9 bytes at the start of each file for. The 
> existence of these 9 bytes is quite well known for everyone, who ever tried 
> to read Sam disks by sectors. But what's inside? If I want to add file to a 
> sam disk myself, what should I put to these 9 bytes? It seems that these 9 
> bytes contain the same information as is stored in directory entry of a 
> file. Please, can somebody tell me what should I write there if I would like 
> to mimic the behaviour of Sam DOS? Thanks.

Byte    SAMDOS Type             G(+)DOS type
0       File type               File type
1-2     Modulo length           File length
3-4     Offset Start            Start Address
5-6     Unused
7       Number of pages
8       Starting page no

Regards,
 -Frode

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