RE: [openMSX-devel] To do?

[David H. <DHe...@is...>]

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>From: ope...@li...
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Vermaelen
>Sent: maandag 23 mei 2005 13:47
>To: ope...@li...
>Subject: RE: [openMSX-devel] To do?
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>On Mon, 23 May 2005, Wouter Vermaelen wrote:
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>I was a bit confused about 'ramdsk' and 'fileimage'. It certainly isn't
>the same thing. Sorry about this.

I already got that impression, and explaining it would have probably
made for a long mail ;-)


>But still can you clarify the intended use model for ramdsk? To me it
>seems more useful if its contents _is_ preserved over eject/reinsert.

Like I said earlier: use regular dsk files if you want persistentie.

The usecase is probably the same as the usecase of a MSXDOS2
ramdisk (aka 'H:'), you can use it for temporary storage of volatile
data, use it as a scratch disk to test fdisk,dskvw20 etc etc
while saving precious (MSX) memory and it has a real FAT12 dir/fat
structure and it even works if you only have MSX-DOS1 :-P

I have found it usefull for testing the 'filemanipulator' and checking
my
assumptions about FAT12 details. I also use it in case I don't feel like

using the DirAsDisk when I extract a demo from the MRC (the sector-cache

that would be created when exiting a DirAsDisk...)

rgds

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