[Coco] Reinventing the wheel: DSK images

[Bill Pierce]

@Gene & Allen, Keith Alphonso put out a "Find" utility on one of his "Tools" disks in the early 90s. I use it all the time and it doesn't run out of stack space. I have used it (so far) on up to 120 meg drives (full to the rim) and no SP errors and it found what I was looking for.
Just look for "Tools II" by Alpha Technologies (I think) or let me know and I'll send ya a disk.
The only thing bad about it is that it lists every directory it searches and keeps searching after finding something and the screen keeps scrolling. You have to be quick with the BREAK key and watch the screen closely... or redirect the out put to a file and search that later. With a 120 meg disk, that's hard to do seeing that no OS9 text editor will load a file that large. On floppy images, this would be ideal.
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 11:02 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Reinventing the wheel: DSK images


On Monday, January 12, 2015 10:02:17 AM Allen Huffman did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Sometimes I write something because it doesn't exist. Sometimes I
> write something because I don't like what i found. Sometimes I write
> things just because it's fun. Keep that in mind...
> 
> Now that I have hundreds of RS-DOS .dsk images from my floppies, I
> want to organize the files they contain. I could do this natively on
> the CoCo, or on a Mac/PC/Linux, etc. My idea would be:
> 
> Scan through a folder and subfolders looking for .DSK. Create a list
> of all files found on RS-DOS disks with a path like this:
> 
> GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/SPACE.BIN
> GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/LAND.BIN
> ...
> GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/EGGBEATR.BIN
> GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/YAWNMAN.BIN
> 
> I would use some tool to generate a CRC/checksum of each file so I
> could match duplicates later. Maybe generating it like a comma
> separated file like:
> 
> GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/SPACE.BIN,3BF5
> GAMES/COCO2/GAMES1.DSK/LAND.BIN,14FA
> 
> I would want to flag disk images that were special -- any disks with
> multiple files that had to be there, or any disk with embedded data
> (like Infocom games). Those would be left alone.
> 
> I then would want to present this to the user in a way that let the
> files be extracted or moved/organized, etc. Maybe as files on a PC in
> folders, so new disk images could be easily made.
> 
> Does any such massive .DSK management tool like this already exist? I
> may not want to reinvent this wheel.
> 
> 		-- Allen

If here is Allen, I don't recall it, so I suspect you'll have to design 
that wheel from whole cloth.  We do have a 'find', but its stack space 
for directory recursion is limited. No clue if that is something my vfy 
could fix or not as I haven't tried it.  My bad, no biscuit. :(

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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