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

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

sure no problem.


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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