[CCTECH] Re: any ISIS info out there?

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:13:12PM +0000, Joe wrote: [I put returns in your text] My original point was that it is less primitive (in most ways) than CP/M. If you count the programming tools, the commands are: the CLI DEBUG (built-in command) ATTRIB COPY DELETE DIR EDIT FORMAT RENAME SUBMIT BINOBJ HEXOBJ OBJHEX LINK LOCATE LIB ASM80 PLM80 ICE80 UPM Admittedly there are no TYPE or DUMP commands but you could easily write them (and you can use COPY to type files). CP/M and early MS-DOS came with more or less the same commands as above. Why is the file system strange? It has a boot track, disk label, directory, blocks of pointers to data, and blocks of data. The Apple ][ DOS file system, and probably others, work pretty much the same way. And ISIS records file length to the nearest byte _unlike_ CP/M. ISIS does have "magic" files that let you access the disk label, boot track, and directory, but that's a _good_ thing (and other file systems, like VMS and I think FILES-11, have the same feature). The manual I have describes the system calls pretty well. It doesn't describe the format of the "magic" files or how to handle wildcards. I'm not. As I said in my original post, I only have the manual and it's not even mine. And I don't know the chronology of the MDSs either. BTW the manual is for version II. I know Version I lacked some features like relocatable object files. -- Derek