Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org (02/10/91)
entropy@ai.mit.edu (entropy) writes: > Can somebody with some documentation give me information on the > Flopfmt and Protobt XBIOS calls? Flopfmt() formats an entire track on your disk. It may be used for 9 or 10 sector formats. 11 sectors are not accepted! In TOS 1.02 or higher you may pass interleave and spiral factor -- TOS 1.00 seems not to evaluate these parms. > On an unrelated note, is there any legitimate way to increase the size > of the RS-232 buffer? Hmmm ... legitimate? :-) You may get the control blocks with Iorec() and change the pointers to the input and output buffers. Don't forget to restore them when terminating your program!!! This method works and I'd think it's legal, since you use documented structures and sys calls. Daniel
entropy@ai.mit.edu (entropy) (02/11/91)
In article <828235@fiction> Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org writes: >entropy@ai.mit.edu (entropy) writes: >> Can somebody with some documentation give me information on the >> Flopfmt and Protobt XBIOS calls? > Flopfmt() formats an entire track on your disk. It may be used for 9 or > 10 sector formats. 11 sectors are not accepted! In TOS 1.02 or higher you > may pass interleave and spiral factor -- TOS 1.00 seems not to evaluate > these parms. Uhm, thanks...I suppose I wasn't specific enough. I know what the function does, I don't know what parameters to give it. Perhaps someone could post a piece of code to format drive A with 80 tracks and 9 sectors and write the proper boot sector? I can handle it from there. >> On an unrelated note, is there any legitimate way to increase the size >> of the RS-232 buffer? > Hmmm ... legitimate? :-) Preferably. "Legitimate" memeaning "Not using undocumented features" or alternately "anything Allan Pratt won't get upset about." (Hi Allan! :-) > You may get the control blocks with Iorec() and change the pointers to > the input and output buffers. Don't forget to restore them when terminating > your program!!! This method works and I'd think it's legal, since you use > documented structures and sys calls. OK, could you document the structures and sys calls for me? I'm posting these questions because I don't have any documentation, not because I'm too lazy to RTFM. Restoring the pointers is not an issue because I'm using this in a TSR and I _want_ the new buffer to stay in effect after termination. Many thanks, entropy