How does one add a file to the RDB of a Hard Disk?

[Thomas]

The identifier is a 32 bit (4 byte) unsigned integer, usually specified as a 8-digit hexadecimal number with a 0x prefix.

In most cases, the first three bytes are the ASCII representation of some letters while the fourth byte is a low number.

For FFS the letters are DOS (D = 44, O = 4f, S = 53) while the last byte represents the flavour (00 = OFS, 01 = FFS, 03 = FFS INTL, 05 = FFS INTL with DirCache).

In your case it is U= 55, N = 4e, I = 49.

In an AmigaDOS shell window you can use ARexx to convert from hex to ASCII and vice versa:

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1> rx "say c2x(UNI)"
554e49
1> rx "say x2c(554e49)"
UNI