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

On Friday 10 August 2012, you wrote:
> 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.

sounds overengineered to me to be honest. since the drive number is handled by 
the drive on its own anyway, just ignore it. (and a PET user would be probably 
indeed expect to be able to use something like "1:foo" to specify drive 1 in a 
filename)

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