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

Hi,

> the 8 is the (IEC) device number, with a unit number it would be
>
> LOAD "0:*",8,1
>
> and this IS very uncommon. you wont see anyone typing this out on a c64 :)
>
> ..... and now i realised "unit" is ambigous in this context, and i
> misunderstood you :) (its really used for both the device- and the drive-
> number, depending on context)

Okay, let's try to sort this out. I originally started to call the
beast unit because the variable I want to get rid of is called
_curunit. Now I seem to understand that I'm talking about the device
number.

So rephrasing it:

My current proposal is to re-interpret the filename

"1:name"

as not refering to drive 1 on/in the current device but rather as
refering to device 1. To my understanding this cannot cause any issue
with filenames because "1:" would have been treated by the device
specially anyway.

The obvious restricting is that it isn't possible anymore to refer to
drive 1 this way anymore. To do this one would have to use

"8:1:name"

which would refer to drive 1 on/in device 8.

Regards,
Oliver
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