[Coco] RS-DOS file manager for OS-9

[Robert Gault]

alsplace at pobox.com wrote:
> Yes. I'd like to be able to do something like:
> 
> makdir RSDOS_DISK1
> arc -am /rs0 RSDOS_DISK1
> 
> (arc being an EXCELLENT file copy utility, much better than dsave unless 
> it has a zillion dirs to deal with like my hard drive now has.)
> 
> Pop in a disk and type "dir /rs0" OR use my Towel disk utility or 
> MultiVue to browse RS-DOS disks -- much nicer than having to use a 
> command line utility for each file.
> 
> SO, we'll see -- file managers may be beyond my capabilities, but who 
> knows.  I may have grown in knowledge since I looked at them ages ago.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mmarlett at isd.net
> ascii, whatever with full directory control. Are you looking to do more???
> 
> 

As things now stand, you could use a Disk Basic archiver to combine all 
of the files on a HDB-DOS drive to another. Then boot NitrOS-9 and use 
hrsdos to move the archive to the OS-9 partition. That won't give you a 
readable archive under OS-9. Otherwise you would need to use hrsdos to 
move each file off an HDB-DOS drive to an OS-9 directory and then 
archive the files with an OS-9 archiver.

There is no wildcard facility built into either rsdos or hrsdos but they 
ought to work within a ShellPlus script using variables to produce a 
wild card effect. I've not tested this idea however.

Attempting a file manager to read a Disk Basic disk looks to me like a 
massive undertaking. Better do a lot of planning before attempting to 
write any code. :)