; this program shows the use of the f_seek function to seek to a position in an opened file. ; (this only works on Commander X16 DOS. on sdcard, not on host filesystem.) %import diskio %import textio %zeropage basicsafe %option no_sysinit main { uword megabuffer = memory("megabuffer", 20000, 256) sub start() { txt.print("writing data file (drive 8)...\n") uword total=0 if diskio.f_open_w("@:seektestfile.bin") { repeat 100 { str text = "hello world.*" void diskio.f_write(text, string.length(text)) total += string.length(text) } diskio.f_close_w() txt.print("written size=") txt.print_uw(total) txt.nl() } else { txt.print("error: ") txt.print(diskio.status()) sys.exit(1) } read_last_bytes() txt.print("\nseeking to 1292 and writing a few bytes...\n") if diskio.f_open_w_seek("seektestfile.bin") { diskio.f_seek_w(0, 1292) void diskio.f_write("123", 3) diskio.f_close_w() } else { txt.print("error: ") txt.print(diskio.status()) sys.exit(1) } read_last_bytes() } sub read_last_bytes() { ; read the last 10 bytes of the 1300 bytes file uword total = 0 uword size txt.print("\nreading...\n") if diskio.f_open("seektestfile.bin") { size = diskio.f_read_all(megabuffer) diskio.f_close() txt.print("size read:") txt.print_uw(size) txt.nl() } else { txt.print("error!\n") sys.exit(1) } txt.print("\nseeking to 1290 and reading...\n") if diskio.f_open("seektestfile.bin") { diskio.f_seek(0, 1290) uword ptr = megabuffer do { size = diskio.f_read(ptr, 255) total += size ptr += size } until size==0 diskio.f_close() txt.print("size read=") txt.print_uw(total) txt.nl() megabuffer[lsb(total)] = 0 txt.print("buffer read=") ubyte idx for idx in 0 to lsb(total-1) { txt.print_ubhex(megabuffer[idx], false) txt.spc() } txt.print("\nas text: \"") txt.print(megabuffer) txt.print("\"\n") } else { txt.print("error: ") txt.print(diskio.status()) sys.exit(1) } } }