[Coco] Error 251

[Bob Devries]

I always use:

dsave /x0 ! shell

That usually works for me, although I have noticed recently that the 
first character of the commands seem to be getting missed, which makes 
the command fail.

I don't know what's causing that.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 8/03/2015 9:21 AM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do your DSAVE to a file on another disk.
>
> OS-9:DSAVE /X0 >/D2/DSAVE.saved
>
> Then you can look at it with an editor, I use Colorful Sled or move it to Windows with EmuDisk or CoCoDskUtil or ...
>
> I suspect you may have a file length too big or a line length to too big.
>
> If the text file shows no problem you can edit the "dsave.saved" into smaller files.
>
> My normal mode of using DSAVE is:
>
> OS-9:DSAVE /X0 ! tee dsave.saved
>
> Ann then after perhaps some editing:
>
> OS-9; <dsave.saved
>
> Or just tell DSAVE to just do parts of the disk.
>
> (The X0 is just for this post, you need to put the actual disk in there.)
>
> SHF
>