Read an Amiga system-configuration file

Read a binary Amiga system-configuration file and return as SysConfig object.

Usage

read.SysConfig(file, disk = NULL)

Arguments

file

The file name of a system-configuration file to be read. Can also be a connection that allows reading binary data.

disk

A virtual Commodore Amiga disk from which the file should be read. This should be an amigaDisk() object. Using this argument requires the adfExplorer package. When set to NULL, this argument is ignored.

Value

Returns an S3 SysConfig class object based on the file that is read.

Details

Amiga OS 1.x stored system preferences in a binary system-configuration file. This function returns the file in a comprehensive format (a SysConfig object).

See also

Other SysConfig.operations: SysConfig, rawToSysConfig(), simpleSysConfig(), write.SysConfig()

Other io.operations: read.AmigaBasicBMAP(), read.AmigaBasicShape(), read.AmigaBasic(), read.AmigaBitmapFontSet(), read.AmigaBitmapFont(), read.AmigaIcon(), read.iff(), write.AmigaBasicShape(), write.AmigaBasic(), write.AmigaBitmapFont(), write.AmigaIcon(), write.SysConfig(), write.iff()

Author

Pepijn de Vries

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## Put a simple SysConfig object into the tempdir:
write.SysConfig(simpleSysConfig(), file.path(tempdir(), "system-configuration"))

## Now read the same file:
sc <- read.SysConfig(file.path(tempdir(), "system-configuration"))

## and plot it
plot(sc)
}