Title: ADDRDEV Author: Kade Hansson Version: 1.32 Title From: Documentation Author From: Documentation Version From: Documentation Supplier: Kade Hansson Date: 07/09/97 Keywords: Memory management software ; File managers Shareware: No Machine: Archimedes Operating system: RISCOS Memory requirements: Peripherals needed: Other s/ware needed: Directory: micros/arch/riscos/e147 Date mounted/updated: 16/09/97 File names: addrdev.arc Unarchived files: 2 Unarchived size: 17 kbytes Omissions: See also: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acquiring the package: Download the archive file(s) and extract using SparkPlug 2 (see the "tools_help" file in micros/arch/riscos/tools for further info). Description: The Kasoft AddressDevice module provides a filing system "address" which allows blocks of memory treated as files. The filing system behaves like a system device in many respects. The filing system special field (introduced by a "#" symbol after the filing system name) gives the address of the memory containing the file block. The address field is parsed by OS_ReadUnsigned with base 16 (hexadecimal) assumed. Filenames on "address" are ignored, and usually null filenames are used. The behaviour of "address" is like that of a file with no name, so that "address#8000:" and "address#9000:" are different files, even though they share the same (null) filename.