[Coco] backups and stuff was Re: basic09 - append to file

[Willard Goosey]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:42:13PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> Yes, finished early this morning and a -t run on it, seems good.  By not 
> having all those FD sectors in the backup, just the files, it actually 
> shrank a somewhat surprising amount, to just over 88 megabytes.  And used 
> only 15 of the possible 48 fd.seg entries.

Good, good.  Let's see, you said the drive you were backing up had
140M on it? Heck, that's 37% compression without even compressing any
data!  I'm impressed both with OS-9 and bru all over again because
that actually worked.

> True, and that of course it has no knowledge of at any point till it 
> finally hits the EOF of the root directory with no children still running.

I never really liked that pre-allocation idea anyway.  It seems like
it's sort of a cop-out.


> I probably have 20% of rtsi 6x09 tree here, and could help restore it.  
> Between the bunch of us I think we could do a decent job of restoring the 
> 6x09 tree at least.  

We seem to have learned from experience, there's plenty of CD-ROM's of
RTSI around.  Presumably Roger Taylor's DVD has images of both RTSI
and maltedmedia.

>One thing is for sure, I would get rid of some of my 
> less than stellar earlier versions of some of my utilities.  One keeps on 
> developing useful stuff, bug fixing etc, and there are early versions of 
> some of my stuff out there that shouldn't ever see the light of day again 
> if lost.

How do you handle that?  do you use some sort of RCS?
> 
> Here, a lot of it is just because I took something apart to see how it 
> worked, maybe even made my local copy better, but never had the heart to 
> nuke it once I was finished, emphasizing that old saw that says "a program 
> is never truly finished until someone shoots the programmer." ;-)

"He died at the console, of hunger and thirst.
 Next day they buried him, face down, 9-edge first."

Willard
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