Re: [cc65] Uniform mass storage device discovery and file locations

On Monday 13 August 2012, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I do not state this frivolously, but getcwd() on the Commodore is a HUGE
> > effort [...]
> 
> As far as I understand you're refering to supporting subdirectories.
> As I wrote in my original post I was probably to naive in believing
> this would be possible.
> 
> However this doesn't invalidate my general ideas. Maybe it wasn't
> obvious (or just to long):
> 
> The primary idea is to say a typical CBM system with the two devices 8
> and 9 and plain vanilla DOS has two directories - namely the root
> directory of device 8 and the root directory of device 9. So getcwd()
> and chdir() are just there to jump between both. And the directory
> names are probably just "8" and "9".
> 
> If more is archivable it would be great. If not than this is by no
> means a showstopper for the whole idea.

i would stick to commodore drives at this point - that removes most of the 
problem cases =)

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