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

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

it's a rawcopy it won't check size or sectors nothing, it skips the first
256 bytes and start copying until either src or tgt gives an error and then
finally it copies the first 256 bytes.


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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