Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vandys@vsta.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: FIG-Forth on CP/M Date: 10 Jul 2012 16:43:29 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <13ba64a5-3977-4ce2-bbd1-d5648e0a8577@googlegroups.com> X-Trace: individual.net zmC0iDm7Ka+FBPq90Ub5SAyL42RcbOYZk/WZOOTqVqyeevBIP4lUNROilzfgJcmog6 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:pIhlRRBZmjmlUWKU8sibWa+WNYA= User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.32-41-generic-pae (i686)) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:13782 Ed wrote: > BTW "block 0" doesn't *have* to start at track 0 sector 0. By modifying > the disk r/w code you could, for example, have "block 0" begin at track 3. If memory serves, the user variable "off" was added to the requested block number. So on a per-task basis you could hae different views of the same underlying disk. -- Andy Valencia Home page: http://www.vsta.org/andy/ To contact me: http://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html