Re: Ada and Hardware

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> "chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:
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> > tried to write a binding to Conio (i didn't know about Jerry Van Dijks!
Where's
> > the new site i lost the link?)
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> See signature :-)
>
> BTW: I might be a bit dense,
> but I don't see what your problem is. If you
> want to high-level format a floppy to your own filesystem from your
> development machine, use the BIOS functions with the DOS compiler or the
> DeviceIOControl functions with the windows compiler.

I didn't know about the DeviceIOControl functions before but i do now.  I'll
probably try doing it this way.

Thanks for the link to the new site Jerry.  It's been bookmarked!

Chris Campbell