[Coco] ToolShed Use.

[coco at jechar.ca]

Thanks I use to know that, thats what I get for being too busy for the 
coco for eight months I really need to find that documentation file and 
reread it.

I am so glad that I have not tryed to use the os9 program as
I might have clobbered an Important disk image.

Charlie

On 2021-11-06 11:19, Alex Evans wrote:
> The important thing you are probably missing is that for a os9/decb 
> disk
> target you use a comma "," to separate the disk name from the filespec. 
> If
> you use a disk file as a target for the copy command without the comma, 
> you
> will overwrite the disk file with the file you are trying to copy to 
> it.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 20:11 Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> Decb.exe has built in help. Ex. for what you are asking:decb copy -h 
>> The
>> above will give you the format for the Copy command.
>> Now to copy a file from a Coco to a PC using Drivewire, you don't use 
>> a
>> Toolshed command. You just use a Basic command or a NitrOS9 command.
>> Since your .bas file is already on your PC, decb copy should work if 
>> you
>> use the format given by Help. If you have a Windows system, you could 
>> try
>> using wimgtool.exe.What if any errors are you seeing? Can you access 
>> any
>> other files on the .dsk? If this is the first file to be placed on the
>> .dsk, is the disk formatted correctly?
>> 
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>> 
>>   On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 6:55 PM, coco at jechar.ca<coco at jechar.ca> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi I have often used the os9 program in toolshed but never
>> used the decb program before.
>> 
>> I had the idea that decb copy -a -0 X.BAS X.dsk
>> 
>> Would put the  basic program X.BAS written on a PC on the
>> drivewire X.dsk
>> 
>> It did not work what is the proper syntax ?
>> 
>> Charlie
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