[Coco] 'arc' copy command and Stack Overflow (ERROR #207)

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jan 25, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Allen, I use 'arc' every day. I copy full 120mg vhds back and forth with no problems.
> My crc is definately different, it's $B12074

Same as Roberts. Interesting.

> I don't know if it's later, but it's not the same. The only problem I've run into is if it hits a file with the 'share' bit set. It will come to a halt if it does. Also, it dilikes directories starting with numbers. Doesn't os9 advise against this? Example 'NITROS9/6309L2/MODULES'. It doesn't stop, but copies no further than the 6309L2, and moves to the next tree.

AH! That explains why my NITROS9 folder was empty on my copy! Geez, I am glad you mentioned that. I manually copied it over, but I am glad I noticed -- I'd hate to lose a bunch of stuff 'cause a copy didn't work properly.

Files not beginning with a number seems familiar.  I'll have to boot stock OS-9 L2 and see what it thinks.

> I pulled this file from my old floppies as I couldn't find it anywhere in any of the archives when I started pulling out my old Coco stuff a few years ago. Fom trying to disassemble it to fix the above problems, I found it was written in C. I have also found (since then), what I beleive is the source in the OS9UG disks. If it is the same, it's a Carl Kreider program.

So many great contributions still living on today. Pity it wasn't more common to put author credit in the help screens. I have so many utilities that I have no idea who created.

> It's on my "Favorite OS9 Utilities" disk here (along with a few other gems you may like):
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/favorite-os9-utilities


Awesome. Eventually I will moved on to my Pi and get DW running on it so I can get files over much quicker than having to power down and take an SD card to the back room ;-)  I suppose I should create a simple httpget for my CoCo ethernet project so files can be pulled down from the web as easy as downloading from a BBS. That could be useful.

		-- A