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by dave.steadman
Wed Oct 16, 2002 12:35 am
Forum: QBasic / QuickBasic related
Topic: Can't see the wood for the trees. Help!
Replies: 4
Views: 1640

Re: Can't see the wood for the trees. Help!

Yea you're right it does look like it should work but It seems to bomb out somewhere after the write to the root directory.
It set's the valid ID but when I check the finished article the label is blank.     ???

Steady ...
by dave.steadman
Tue Oct 15, 2002 1:13 am
Forum: QBasic / QuickBasic related
Topic: Can't see the wood for the trees. Help!
Replies: 4
Views: 1640

Can't see the wood for the trees. Help!

I'm trying to manipulate the boot record of a floppy disk in various ways. One such way is allocating the Floppy an 'Illegal' label - Yes I can hear you now saying, but why? and that's stupid!
I'm trying because ... well that's it really, because ...

I'm not going to ask you for code on this one ...