#2090 HARDDISK CONTROLLER
11-Dec-87 00:19:39
Sb: #97698-#2090 HARDDISK CONTROLLER
Fm: Ben Blish 72667,1341
To: John Draper 76703,4322
Only repair programs need to do that — not "normal" application programs. A
file system interacts with this OS on a level that is just as standardized as
the DOS level; DOS packett level. If you describe a proceedure for "cleaning
up" a disk using the AmigaDOS copy commands interactive mode delete selection,
then a unix-style replacement is not only incompatible, but sadly deficient in
comparison. If you should try and clean up a disk partition with a tool not
meant to handle it, then you suffer… If the tool, on the other hand, uses the
file system in the prescribed manner, then it should work. I suggest that all
of us should be writing our stuff at that level. Otherwise things don't work
when the OS gets revved. As we have seen. –Ben–