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+There are a few places where I cut corners in the interest of not junking-up code.  This is part of the SparrowOS mentality.  I try not to let, often stupid, legacy compatibility issues enter and junk-up SparrowOS.
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+* I made my type-casting operator post-fix because it makes the compiler way cleaner.
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+* SparrowOS does not figure-out $FG,2$FAT32$FG$ short name alias numbers.  $LK,"FAT32DirNew","MN:FAT32DirNew"$().  It can cause hard drive corruption, so I might have to do it.  It would really take a lot of junky code for this hatefully, detestable, legacy issue.  "Please don't make me ruin my beautiful shiny-new SparrowOS with that!"  I am also not enthused about $FG,2$FAT32$FG$ because it is in patent limbo.  $FG,2$FAT32$FG$ might get removed from SparrowOS.  There is a SparrowOS native, 64-bit, file system that works perfectly well.  $FG,2$FAT32$FG$ is useful, however, because it assists in transferring between dual booted operating systems.
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+* I changed the $LK,"asm opcodes","FI:::/SparrowOS/Compiler/OpCodes.TXT.Z"$ names to remove the ambiguity between instructions with different numbers of arguments, making my $LK,"assembler","FI:::/SparrowOS/Compiler/Assembler.CPP.Z"$ simpler and I did minimal 16-bit asm support, since 64-bit is what you should be using, unless you're doing a $LK,"boot loader","FI:::/SparrowOS/Adam/Boot/BootCD.CPP.Z"$.
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+* There are no file-sharing locks of any kind.  You're on your own.