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Enlighted (6011)

20-04-2021, 13:27

I must say MSX-BASIC is pretty limited when it comes to handling files. I would say you need to use BDOS-calls to archieve the result in a compatible way with reasonable effort. This means that at minimum you need to have some assembly routines to support your BASIC program.

From the past I remember also programs like "dirsort" that saves the directory to the order you want (only for floppies) but hard to say if this could be solution to your problem or not..

By Jipe

Paragon (1586)

20-04-2021, 16:18

this program make the job for floppy

https://www.generation-msx.nl/software/filosoft/diskit---de-...

By ~mk~

Champion (317)

20-04-2021, 17:38

LS.COM from MSX-DOS Tools can do the job

By PingPong

Prophet (4088)

20-04-2021, 20:23

NYYRIKKI wrote:

I must say MSX-BASIC is pretty limited when it comes to handling files. I would say you need to use BDOS-calls to archieve the result in a compatible way with reasonable effort. This means that at minimum you need to have some assembly routines to support your BASIC program.

From the past I remember also programs like "dirsort" that saves the directory to the order you want (only for floppies) but hard to say if this could be solution to your problem or not..

would be nice to have some kind of basic command like DEF USR=.... A=USR(A$(0)) that fill an array of string each one with the filename on disk, or better
A=USR0(A$) ' find first
A=USR1(A$) ' find next return 0 if endof dir

By sergarbes

Expert (114)

21-04-2021, 14:36

Thank you for all your answers MSX mates!