[Coco] getting files on a virtual disk

[Bonzzo]

Thank you for the reply.

I have been able to put the files on disk readable by the coco using Jeff
Vavasour's  Port.exe.  It was a little confusing at first, but I was able to
get it.

I have had my coco set-up for almost a week now; so bare with me as I play
catch up.  I am finding I am meshing CoCo2 and CoCo3 knowledge together,
problem is I currently only have a CoCo 2 and no one on e-bay is parting
with their 3 at this time.

I thought about the terminal emulation as well (before I was able to get
port.exe to work) and I tried to load my favorite.. Mikeyterm but it didn't
work because I had the coco 3 version.

With that said; if it's not too much trouble, I would appreciate it if you
could make up a disk of the CoCo 2 versions of things.  Hopefully that will
hold me over until someone decides to part with their CoCo 3 on eBay.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: getting files on a virtual disk

>From: "Bonzzo" <bonzzo-ai6B2lNGiXhWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>
>Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:16:49 -0500

>To make a long story short I need to take /bas, /bin and /arc coco files
>that are on my PC and transfer them to disk to be used on my CoCo.
>
If you can scounge it up, the toc package (toc, fromc, dirc) will
read/write disk BASIC disks from MS-DOS.  That doesn't appear to be on
rtsi... If you want I can put it on my web page and/or email it to you.

>Another question I have.. the ARC files.  These are compressed files right?
>I need the program to unpack these files or if I'm mistaken, how do I read
/
>launch these types of files?

Disk BASIC native ARC files are made with The Compressor.  The other
big compression program under BASIC was dshrink, which makes
compressed disk images ending in .DSK (confusing, yes?)
I've got a virtual disk on my webpage that has all the native DECB
decompressors... for the CoCo 3...  Err...

It's all on os9archive.rtsi.com.  If you need it, I can make up a
virtual disk with the coco2 versions of things.

Another good way of dealing with this is with a terminal emulator.  I
don't know a thing about the coco2 terminal programs, though.  And
you'd need a 4-pin DIN to DB25 cable.  Or an MPI and a serial port
pak.

>thanks in advance.
>
>- Mike

Willard