[Coco] [CoCo] Just learning OS-9 - Questions

[Aaron Wolfe]

Sure, I'd appreciate a copy.  If you are OK with sharing and
maintaining, I would think this type of utility would merit inclusion
in the NitrOS9 distribution.


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
<retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can send you the rawcopy.asm later if you want. Need to improve it by
> deleting the file if it already exists (when rawcopying from a device to a
> file).
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
>> <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Talking about transfering files I just had a problem this week. As I
>> don't
>> > have a PC with internal floppy drive - they are so 80's :o) i had to rely
>> > on driveWire and use my coco gear to make it. And I found that
>> transferring
>> > a non OS-9 40 track floppy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one)
>> > impossible with the tools I had in hands. No, RS-DOS backup will stop at
>> > atrack 35 and OS-9 backup starts writing the LSN0 and screws the drive
>> > access so far.
>> >
>> > I tried making a Basic09 program and I found it has issues beyond track
>> 35
>> > too, so I made my very own rawcopy tool for os-9 that copies the raw file
>> > or raw device to another device, but it skips the LSN0 and it will copy
>> it
>> > as a final step. So i can use it as: rawcopy /x1@ /d0@ or even rawcopy
>> > image.dsk /d0@ and it worked fine :)
>> >
>>
>> Cool!  I have wished for such a thing more than once but never sorted
>> out how to do it beyond finding that giving the raw devs to regular
>> copy doesn't work.
>>
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