Radio Shack TRS-80 model III Owner's Manual page 81

TRSDOsili
granules
after
the
one containing
the
file's
eof mark,
are
recovered
and
returned
to
the
system
when
the
file is
closed.
ATRSDOSfile
FILE:
LRN1
LRN2 LRN3
EXTENT
1
LRNN
EOF
EXTENT
2
SEGMENT:
GRANULE
1
GRANULE
2
GRANULE
32
GRANULE:
SECTOR
X
SECTOR
X +
SECTOR
X +
2
BYTE1 BYTE
2
BYTE
3
BYTE
256
SECTOR:
LRN:
Logical
Record Number,
used
to
specify
an
individual,
user-defined
logical record.
Such
a logical
record
is
the smallest unit
of
information
which
can be addressed during disk input/output
(a
physical record
is
the unit
which
is
actually
read
from
or written
to
disk).
File:
A
group
of logical records; the largest unit
of information
which can
be addressed
by
a
trsdos
command.
Sector:
A
physical record,
composed
of
256
contiguous bytes.
Granule:
The
minimum
allocatable unit
of storage for
any
file.
Extent:
One
contiguous allocation of granules.
System Routines
for
Assembly-Language I/O
This information
is
provided for
customers
who
wish
to
write
their
own
assembly
level i/o
routines.
An
explanation of the calling
sequence and
parameters
for
each necessary
i/o
routine
is
given.
A
knowledge of
z-80
machine
code
is
assumed.
The
following notations are standard in this section:
(HL)
=
xxxx Registers
hl
contain
the
address of (point
to)
xxxx
in
machine
format.
(If
address of
xxxx
=
34B2H then
the
values
in
the
registers are:
h
=
34;
l
=
B2).
Other
register pairs will also
be
indicated this
way.
a
=
xx Register
a
contains the
numeric value of
xx
in
binary form.
Register
a
is
used
to
return the
trsdos
error
code
for i/o calls.
A
complete
list
of
error
codes and
their
meanings appears
at
the
end
of
this
chapter.
Other registers will also
be
indicated
this
way.
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