[Coco] Files to os9

[Chuck Youse]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 21:26 -0600, Ron Bihler wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've never used the toolshed under Windows, so downloading / compiling
> > it might be a bear, but it includes an 'os9' utility that allows you to
> > manipulate os9 disk images pretty easily.  I use it all the time under
> > Linux and MacOS..
> >
> > C.
> 
> Ok, got cygwin and toolshed, this would appear to be what I need.
> 
> Under cygwin I can type os9 and I see I can now use a copy command etc.  I 
> might need a bit more spoon feeding here, does this work with a virtual 
> floppy or do I need to transfer to a real one only?
> Can you give me a basic syntax or sample of how this is used.
> 

Virtual floppies.  To format a virtual image named blah.dsk:

os9 format blah.dsk

That'll create the image.  Type 'os9 format' and you should get some
options - set number of tracks, sides, sectors/track, etc. in the image.

And then to see the directory and then copy bochsout.txt from the local
system into the root directory of the image:

os9 dir blah.dsk
os9 copy bochsout.txt blah.dsk,bochsout.txt

Trick to remember here is that for the OS9 files in the image, the name
is <image>,<name> - the comma is important.  Took me ages to figure that
out. 

Gluck
C.