[Coco] New trick for nitros9 users

[Mike Rowen]

Thanks for the clarification.

-Mike

On Jan 10, 2011, at 8:59 PM, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Monday, January 10, 2011 08:49:41 pm Mike Rowen did opine:
>
>> Just a question. I'm trying to make sure I understand your trick. You
>> used minicom to xfer your dsk file to /dd first?
>
> Yes, by running oz on the coco from the minicom screen, and then  
> feeding sz
> from the minicom sesson.
>
>> Then you copied from /dd to /s1, then used ded to update things? Is  
>> that
> correct?
>
> Yes, 'ded filename.dsk'.  The first sector ded reads is os9's Logical
> Sector Number 0, aka lsn0, just as if you had issued a 'ded /dx@' to  
> look
> at the raw disk.  The first 3 bytes are DD.TOT, which for that size of
> image should have been $000b40, not the $008000 I found there.  So e  
> for
> edit, and change those 1st 3 bytes to 000B40, hit enter to exit the  
> edit
> mode, then a 'w' and a confirming 'y'.  Done, q, y, and you are back  
> to the
> shell prompt.
>
>> I'm not
>> setup to do this myself, but I want to learn here. :) Thanks.
>
> All you need is a copy of ded, the latest version from the cvs on
> sourceforge.
>
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