Introduction
The ADFlib is a portable C library designed to manage Amiga formatted devices like harddisks and
ZIP disks, or dump files of this kind of media via the .ADF format.
The API permit you to :
- mount/unmount/create a device (real one or a dump file),
- mount/unmount/create a volume (partition),
- create/open/close/delete/rename/undel a file,
- read/write bytes from/to a file,
- create/delete/rename/move/undel a directory,
- get directory contents, change current directory, get parent directory
- use dir cache to get directory contents.
A callbacks system make easy to write the real device driver for any platform.
The ADFOpus (here)
application (a useful Windows Explorer like for ADF files and devices), initially
written by Dan Sutherland, now maintained by Gary Harris, is able to
access from Win95/98/NT an 2.5 inches harddisk formatted under AmigaDos.
Dan wrote the specific driver for ADFlib, and gave me a lot of feedback which helped
to design the library.
The same redirection system is used to display error/warning/verboses messages and
support notification on the target platform.
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