[Coco] Toolshed DSAVE issues.

[Jeff Teunissen]

ar2 certainly does work to create a file that can be extracted on a
CoCo, that's one of the ways I copy many files at once onto virtual
disks. It's best to not use compression (use the -ss flag). If you're
on a Unix-like system, you can do:

find -type f -print | sort | xargs -0 ar2 -uoss ../arfile.ar

That will copy every file in the current directory (and in all
subdirectories), into the file "arfile.ar" in the parent directory,
and it will write them in alphabetical order.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:33 AM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
>
>
>   using toolshed
>
>   os9 dsave -e myvirtualos9disk.dsk, .
>
>   Dumps an entire os9 disk to mu linux machine.  :)
>
>   However
>
>   os9 dsave -e . newvirtualos9disk.dsk,
>
>   does not copy it back to the new disk just generates errors :(
>
>   ar2 does not create an archive in linux that I could copy to
>   newvirtualos9disk.dsk, and unarc there so maybe I am doing
>   something wrong.
>
>   otherwise I will just have to manually copy back the files
>   I changed one at a time.
>
>   os9 copy -r
>
>   has allways worked fine bidirectionally.
>
>   Any sugestions.
>
>   Charlie
>
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