[Coco] Frustrated

[Bill Pierce]

Richard, the utilos Stephen referred to are in sever "archive collections" buried a zip file in the malted media archives.
They are a collection of 3 utils by Bob Devries. "LSN0", FileSize", and "FileInfo". I posted a disk with the files in my dropbox but I don't think they'll solve your problem as they in no way explain how dmode works. LSN0 just give some basic info of the contents of lsn0, but not all of what dmode can modify.
The "defs" files Gene & I mentioned are your best bet on understanding the descriptor table.
Here's the disk:


 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23059963/Stuff/Bob%27s%20Utils.dsk

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 7:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Frustrated

On Tuesday 29 March 2016 14:40:47 Richard E. Crislip wrote:> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:32:25 -0700>> "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> wrote:> > In addition to the documentation that will be offered, there are at> > least two utilities that will read the "LSN0" of a floppy and tell> > you the matching DMODE values for the floppy.> >> > LSN0 can be read for disks that the descriptor does not match by> > these programs.> >> > I vaguely remember the one I got from RTSI many decades ago was> > named "LSN0" but I cannot find it quickly on my boot disks.> >> > If needed, I can find the program I used somewhere. It was used a> > lot.> >> > Neither program had good names IMHO.>> Thanks Stephen,>> That program would be a definitely help, Now, like you apparently all> I have to do is locate it.>> CheersLSN0 can be fabricated from what you have, just "dump" the first sector of the drive by addressing it as /dn at .Cheers, Gene Heskett-- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."-Ed Howdershelt (Author)Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco