[Coco] Porting files to DSK

John Donaldson jadonaldson at charter.net
Sun Feb 13 12:07:48 EST 2005


Tim,
  Where can I find NirOS9 Cocotools. I looked at Imgtool under Mess, but 
it seems to be awkward.

John Donaldson


tim lindner wrote:

>John Donaldson <jadonaldson at charter.net> wrote:
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>>I am trying to port the Pascal file over to a .DSK for my JV/JC emulator.
>>I am using PORT.exe I first make a 35 track .DSK using Fortmat inside of
>>NitrOS9. It makes a 35 track .DSK. I then go back into MSDOS and run
>>Port.exe. I select the 35 track .DSK and move the files over to it.
>>  I then reboot into NitrOS9 and when I try and read the .DSK, I get ERROR
>>249 - Wrong Type.
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>>I thought Port.exe was the utility to move MSDOS files over to OS9??
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>Port doesn't support writing to a disk image using an OS-9 file system.
>Port assumes the disk image is formatted for RSDOS.
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>Use one of the RSDOS -> OS9 file translators under Nitros-9.
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>Or use a different image handling program that supports OS-9
>filesystems. Like Nitros-9's CoCoTools or MESS' imgtool. The win32 port
>of MESS comes with a GUI version of imgtool, that's handy.
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