[Coco] Re: Re: Help with ms-dos DSKINI please

[Charlie]

So, my final question to all that I've learned trying to make this lsl.dsk
for my coco.....

If you make JVC type DSK files with MESS, they can not be made to a real
floppy with dskini?

That was the 1st thing I tried last night. I did the dsave to a JVC type dsk
and used dskini to write it but it did not work. Thats why I had to do the
whole copy an .os9 disk and format it thing.

Thanks again.
Charlie

"Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote
in message news:40FC9304.9090604 at worldnet.att.net...
> Charlie wrote:
>
> > **Here is the part that threw me. When I tried to create a OS9 disk in
MESS
> > it just didnt do anything.
>
> That is because the .os9 disk starts out as an empty file and MESS does
> not have lsn0 to determine a disk format. At the moment, I'm not sure
> what the best workaround is for this.
>
> > So I made a copy of lsl.os9 (lsl2.os9) and
> > formatted lsl.os9
> >
> > I loaded dsave and os9gen.
> > mounted /d0 lsl2.os9 (the copy with the game)
> > mounted /d1 lsl.os9 (newly formatted)
> >
> > dsave -b /d1 ! shell
> >
> > Whammo!
>
> The difference between what you and I tried is I used backup and you
> used dsave. Backup makes and identical copy while dsave will change the
> location of files on the disk; equivalent to a defrag.
>
> Again, why this should matter to dskini is not obvious.
>
>
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