Re: [cc65] Filenames for POSIX functins on CBM targets

From: Groepaz <groepaz1gmx.net>
Date: 2012-08-09 20:10:57
On Thursday 09 August 2012, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if this is an exceptionally bad or an exceptionally good
> time to bring up that topic (coming from my cc65 todo list) so please
> excuse if the former is true...
> 
> As far as I understand on CBM targets currently one can prepend a
> filename to be given to open() with "0#" or "1#" to select the "drive
> number" (whatever that acually is). However there's no way to select
> the 'unit number' and that seems a big issue to me.

personally i would propose to get rid of that "drive number" alltogether (it 
is used to select one of the two drives in commodore dual-disk-drives) and 
instead put the device number into the string.

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