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

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 26 January 2015 00:14:05 Bill Pierce via Coco did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Willard, this makes me wonder why the NitrOS9 repo disks have a
> directory tree with: NITROS9 / 6309L2 / MODULES /etc

Why are you putting spaces in the pathlist above? Spaces are not legal in 
any pathlist unless they are quoted to protect them from shell expansion.  
At least not in a real os.

> I can access it OK and I can even create such a DIR, but the 'arc'
> utility will not copy it. I've renamed mine to CC36309L2 so I never
> have problems. Maybe this is something we need to address in the repo
> builds?
> 
> 
> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>
Until this thread started I never heard of arc, but dsave has no such 
problem.
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
> To: Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jan 25, 2015 11:55 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 'arc' copy command and Stack Overflow (ERROR #207)
> 
> 
> Yeah, under stock os9 files can't have names that start with a number.
> 
> Seems like a silly restriction but I'm sure there was a good reason...
> 
> 
> Willard
> 
> Sent from Samsung tablet
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date: 01/25/2015  6:32 PM  (GMT-07:00)
> To coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject Re: [Coco] 'arc' copy command and Stack Overflow (ERROR #207)
> 
> 
> 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
> 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.
> 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.
> 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
> 
> 
> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jan 25, 2015 5:24 pm
> Subject: [Coco] 'arc' copy command and Stack Overflow (ERROR #207)
> 
> 
> I seem to have more files than the excellent 'arc' copy utility can
> handle. My arc is Edition #2 (CRC $CFA2A1). Is there a later version
> or did I just hit a wall?
> 
> Strange, since I would have used ARC to copy all of this to the old
> Compact Flash card. Maybe I ran in to this and had to do it in
> sections.
> 
> -- A


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