I've always wanted to get a list of volumes in my nanoPEB/CF7 from XB without having to mount the cfgmgr disk. I think I may have found a way using the utility XMOUNT. With XMOUNT you can mount CF7 volumes from in a XB program (see attached file) by loading a little assembler utility. So to get a list I wrote a program to mount each volume in drive 1 then print out the name, go onto to the next and so on. It's not real fast but its not all that slow either. takes about 5 sec to make a listing of 23 volumes on the screen. I plan to integrate it into a more useful menu program later. here's the program (note: the XMOUNT disk needs to be mounted in drive 1):
100 CALL CLEAR
115 PRINT "LOADING XMOUNT"
120 CALL INIT
130 CALL LOAD("DSK1.XMOUNTOBJ")
150 FOR I=1 TO 20
160 CALL LINK("MOUNT",1,I)
210 OPEN #1:"DSK1.", INPUT,RELATIVE,INTERNAL
220 INPUT #1:A$
230 PRINT I;A$
240 CLOSE #1
400 NEXT I
I'm sure there are ways to speed it up such as in-bed the xmount .obj into the XB program. But this gives the idea and the program for others to mess with.
some other nice features of XMOUNT is you can mount permanent (thru reboot) or temporary (reboot sets back to previous). Also can get list of the volume number that is in your drives. I got all kinds of plans for this little utility.
Here is the original link to Guillaume Tello’s website the creator: https://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/ti99_e.htm
he will always have the latest update.
If for any reason that doesn't work here are the files and doc.
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