[Coco] need help on how to copy a directory

[Barry Nelson]

You will probably want to use the dsave command. There are two versions of this command, I will give examples for the newer one normally used with NitrOS9 first, then I will cover the older version included with RadioShack/Microware OS9. Both versions of the command do not actually perform the copying themselves, instead they generate a list of commands that will create the directories and copy the files. You can either save this output into a script which you can edit, or as I show in the examples below, pipe the output into a shell to be immediately executed. Here is the example for the newer NitrOS9 version of dsave:

cd /d0/newspaper
makdir /dd/apps/newspaper
dsave -s40 /dd/apps/newspaper ! shell -p

The -s40 reserves a 40k buffer for the copy command.

Below is an example using the older original version of dsave:

cd /d0/newspaper
makdir /dd/apps/newspaper
dsave -s40 /d0 /dd/apps/newspaper ! shell -p

> Richard Hawk rhawk1 at centurylink.net 
> Sat Feb 6 02:46:32 EST 2016
> 
> I have the newspaper in vcc drive 0
> 
> I am trying to copy it to my /dd/apps folder
> 
> At the shell I tried all the copy commands, but I am trying to copy the
> whole disk one directory and all of its sub directory's to a directory I
> made on /dd/apps/newspaper
> 
> I tried copy -w /d0/newspaper /dd/apps/newspaper
> 
> I tried copy -w *.* /dd/apps/newspaper
> 
> I could create all the directory I guess and copy them all over to their
> correct directory's but I thought there was an easier way
> 
> Thanks again and yes I been reading the manuals on line
> 
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