Remap...
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Lets say drive B is a 8mb container file on some disk.
Elsewhere there are 124 more of them (1GB media).
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My box can make any of those 124 others appear as
drive B: same for C: and D:.??
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Mount is? CP/M program? written in BASIC that reads
a file DISK.DTA and that has all of the mappings
listed by name or a simple number (yet unnamed)
and what ones are active as? Drive letter.? I can
reassign B though C to any of those potential drives.
DISK.DTA is just a database.
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In use I boot nominal first 4 drives A: is always fixed for
sanity and also since all the mainline programs
( marked system) are there.??
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With that I can make C: into CLIB and D: into CPROG.
Or C: as PASLIB and D: PASCAL.? And so on.?
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It allows me to deal with the lack of hierarchical directories
in CP/M.
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The selected disk named are just? pointers to where that
"partition" starts on meda as everything else like size
are fixed.? So the only? parameter in the DPBlock is "offset"
as a variable.? ?That database also has information like
where it was before as in if B was CLIB and I change to
BASLIB it will have an entry listing what B was before.
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I was a VMS user and used to moving around directories?
as needed to organize projects and all.? ?Closest thing is the?
directory system of Linux.?
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Allison?
