[Coco] Transfer utilities

[Robert Gault]

You still need to transfer the file from the Coco hard drive to your PC 
hard drive. Since the .dsk file won't fit on a floppy without 
compression or maybe not even then, you will need to use something like 
a null modem transfer.

George Ramsower wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Devries"
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>> George, it is possible to create a .dsk file from a bootable OS9 disk, 
>> but without a hard drive, it is difficult.
>> The .dsk format is simply all the sectors of the disk saved end-to-end 
>> as one file.
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>> It is fairly trivial to write a Basic09 programme to do this, but 
>> that's assuming you have a hard disk on your coco.
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>> If you don't have a hard disk, you would need to create the .dsk file 
>> in several "blocks" of some arbitrary (but smaller) size, move them to 
>> the PC, and JOIN them together there.
>>
>> What is your current hardware setup on your coco 3?
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> I have a 30 meg SCSI drive attached and it it my love for this coco.
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> If  I understand your message correctly, I could simply get each sector, 
> compile them into a single file and call it a .dsk file?
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> Why wasn't I told this before?
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> This is great! I love it!
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> I'll try it.
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> George
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