can you load a file into memory in amigabasic or in amigados?

[the777]

so you can look at the ascii of the file... . so not actually run the file but put it somewhere in memory so i can take a look at the ascii, hex, decimal, disassembly, etc...

[the777]

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because i want to see if the amiga could do it out of the box

[the777]

Copy the file to RAM: then open with Ed?

the idea is to use basic at some point to turn the decimal into colored dots to represent whats on the disk or file

[the777]

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[the777]

"can you load a file into memory in amigabasic or in amigados?"

both of those things would be without purpose if they were unable to perform that function.
What a ridiculous question.

the idea it to put the code into ram, so it can be read in ascii, hex, decimal, etc. not loaded into basic as a program, etc.

[the777]

One problem is the lack of information given by the OP.

There's no such thing as "a file" - at least not in any useful manner.

He needs to specify which kind of file it is and what sort of content he expects to be able to look for in the file. Then maybe more useful information could be given.

Best regards,

Niels

i need it to read the sectors of a disk. i want to see what is in each sector and represent it as decimal numbers. im not looking for anything particular in the code. that information could be used to draw a map of the disk in color or monochrome

ive used amos to read the data inside a file and draw a color map of it but now i want to read the sectors directly

i know there is a trackdisk extension for amos but the instructions arent very good after translating from french

and i know there is an undocumented trackdisk command for blitz basic but cant find any instructions for it

[the777]

https://aminet.net/package/util/sys/Dev-Handler

whats that? does it work with any basic interpreter?