Re: SD: DHOS Numeric Authority


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Re: SD: DHOS Numeric Authority




probly from your B Sharp in your email.  your father maybe?  i dunno.

-----Original Message-----
From: BSharp81@aol.com <BSharp81@aol.com>
To: shell-developers@lists.ticalc.org <shell-developers@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: SD: DHOS Numeric Authority


>
>My name is Greg, not Bill. Where'd you get Bill from?
>
>Greg Sharp
>
>> Matt--
>>
>>  I'm sorry.  I don't understand your format.  The format that Bill Sharp
>>  and I are currently working on looks like this (comments after
>>  semicolons):
>>
>>  .org 0
>>
>>  .db $00fd
>>  .db %11111111
>>  .db %11111111
>>  .db %00001110
>>  .db %00011100
>>  .db %00111000
>>  .db %01110000
>>  .db %11111111
>>  .db %11111111
>>  .db 8," ZShell "
>>
>>  .db $00f8
>>  .db %01100110
>>  .db %11100111
>>  .db %11000011
>>  .db %11000011
>>  .db %11000011
>>  .db %11100111
>>  .db %11111111
>>  .db %01111110
>>  .db 8," Usgard "
>>
>>  .end
>>
>>  The shell is cycling through the variables.  It comes upon a file with
>>  header $00f8.  So it looks up $00f8 in the icon library.  Ah, it seems
>>  that $00f8 has an entry.  So it reads those 8 bytes to draw the icon.
>>  Then suppose the user chooses to look at a file's properties (if that
>>  gets implemented).  The shell looks thru, finds $00f8, skips 8 bytes,
>>  and reads the 8byte file type.  =)
>>
>>  Very easy =)
>>
>>  --Matt