Re: A86: directories


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Re: A86: directories




Beats me, but you'd have to if you want a new var type ... unless you somehow took
over one of the system variable types.

I guess you would have to do something clever with [sqrt]PARSE.

Kirk Meyer wrote:

> 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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