In message <199808141017.LAA08158@ares.physics.ox.ac.uk> you wrote:

> 
> > > > Just to let you know Andrew McMurray's filecore filesystem is now
>                                         ^
> Actually there is no 'a' in my surname. The commit message has it correct.
> 
> > AFAIR it's a file system that lets you read Acorn partitions, bit like
> > reading your windows partition on an PC in NetBSD, you can read an Acorn
> > RISCOS (probably ADFS one) in NetBSD.
> 
> Any Acorn RISCOS filesystem that uses the standard filecore format
> will be understood. This includes ADFS, IDEFS ... One proviso, is that
> if any system (eg various people's IDEFSs) has its own multiple
> partition format, then filecorefs will only read the first
> partition. Until, that is, I am sent the docs that describe how the
> multiple partitions are implemented (and I save up enough round
> tuits).

I have code for reading !Longfilenames (v1 and v2) directory files
if you want - currently it's living in my (userland) ADFS reader,
but it's useful for the algorithm.

<snip>

> Floppies don't work either, as the floppy driver cannot yet handle the
> ADFS format. (If you put a filecore fs onto a standard DOS 1.44 disk
> it should work. I wonder whether ADFS would cope with that).

I've got a modified version of the floppy driver code that supports
Acorn 800k and 1.6M discs if you want it...

Seeya,
 Adam.
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