Evening David,
David Tubbs wrote:
It is some time since I was looking into the depths of QXL_WIN, and at that
time I found a full and detailed specification of the layout.
Not sure where it came from, a web page, not on my current machine but I
could look at an old HDD ?
I have received
Evening Ralf,
8-) Winbackup seems quite a long time ago ;.)
WinBack does seem a long time ago - it was the first program I had
reviewed in QL World magazine. We must be getting old.
Cheers,
Norman.
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Hi, Norman.
Ok, 0-1-2-3 but when we get to C-D-E-F-$. What's going on
here? Is this sequence telling me that the map groups (of 4 sectors
each) 0 through $F are all linked in a chain belonging to whichever
file has file_id 1 and that block group $10 is the final one in the
file?
Almost
Evening John,
Thanks for yet more explaining. I discovered (!) that if I take the
file_id from the file's entry in the directory and use that to index
into the block map (having subtracted 1 first) I get a 'value' which I
call stragely, the block number.
Multiply that by the number of sectors
8-) Winbackup seems quite a long time ago ;.)
Cheers...Ralf
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From: Norman Dunbar
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QXL.WIN internal format?
Evening John,
Thanks for yet more explaining. I discovered (!) that if I take the
file_id
