Re: A86: directories


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Re: A86: directories




and how, might i ask, do you integrate your own _findsym into the TI-86
OS!?!?

Dux Gregis wrote:
> 
> David Phillips wrote:
> 
> > At 02:45 AM 5/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
> > >David Phillips wrote:
> > >> I don't really think it could be done easily.  You'd have to create a new
> > >> VAT/FAT table to account for directories, and the real VAT wouldn't reflect
> > >> the new one.
> > >No you wouldn't.  You can just take advantage of the unused byte.
> >
> > You'd have to have some list for multiple vars with the same name.
> 
> You could do this: all variables with 01 in the unused byte belong to the same
> directory, all with 02 in the unused byte belong to the same directory, etc.  It
> really doesn't matter because you would be writing your own _findsym.

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