Msg: 2999 *Conference*
08-13-92 00:31:31
From: CORY HAWKINS
To : ROBERT BENSON
Subj: REPLY TO 4058 (ACTIVATE TS-DOS
Robert - Here's what I'm thinkin'... For BASIC to access the drive, something in it's path directs it to the drive when an '0:' is detected. Whether it goes to the ROM is, I think, a moot point. I want to be able to load into that path the command that sends it on it's way, and then turn it off, without having to go into the ROM to tell it to put the alternate in the path. Am I too metaphoric??? The ROM has a program that, when activated, interupts the usual logic path and allows it into the drive. That interuption should be able to be POKEd in if the right commands are known. It must have something to do with the RST 7,12 'hook' because programs that I run which effect that are in compatable with an active TS-DOS. Thus is the reason for my desire to turn it on and off without entering the ROM!!! I suspect that the disk version will use the same hooks and be of some help in figurin' this out. Your court!! ))Cory((