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Many thanks Bernd,

    but the only notice about FILLER on twiki is .... see bottom

    Please, WHERE IS THE FILLER file length 1.5 kb or 2.0 kb <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

    Viktor Dvorak
    Praha

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RE: my earlier email, in case I didn't make it plain, colorForth works fine
(boot, display, save etc.) on my HP Vectra XA after mods.
Also I was able to do screen dumps to a DOS floppy using this line:

"60 load file full put"

after I'd changed block 60 to not use "empty", but "empt" which doesn't put
up the colorForth logo. To get full resolution I made sure that the variable
"d" was set to 1.

Note that the word "file" loads the block of DOS file handling words and "60
load" loads the PNG utility. I found I needed to use a 1.5Kb FILLER file on
the DOS floppy rather than 2Kb. Also for full resolution screen dumps
(1024x768) at least a 400Kb transfer file is needed (I created a 512kb one
just to be sure!). "put" takes a (cell) address and count and writes to the
second file on the floppy.

Cheers,

Steve.
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Steve Smith

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Beuster" <bernd.beuster@xxxxxxxx>
To: "ColorForth List Member" <ColorForth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:00 PM
Subject: [ColorForth] *.BLK files & Filler & FDD


> You may take a look at
> http://sleepless-night.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/ColorForth/ (I can't
> access it yet).
>
> There was an article from sombody who decribed the FILLER problem with
> MS-DOS (I think he used only 1.5KB for the filler file).
>
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> Bernd
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