[Coco] drivewire surprise? Re: Chromasette

[Steve Ostrom]

Boisy, if I typed DRIVEOFF in order to access the floppy drive on my Coco, 
but then typed COPY "EXAMPLE.BAS:0" TO "EXAMPLE.BAS:10" would that work to 
transfer any file from my Coco to the PC?  Will other regular HDB-DOS 
commands work the same way with DriveWire's special HDB-DOS?  The manual 
only mentions the command DRIVE#n, so I thought that this special version of 
DriveWire HDB-DOS was very limited in transferring programs, but worked 
really well to actually run Coco programs that were .dsk images on the PC. 
This is really cool !!

Is there also a BACKUP 0 TO 10 command, for example, to copy an entire 
floppy drive 0 to the PC virtual drive 10?  Just wishing !!

Remember when I hand-assembled my HDB-DOS harddrive backup ML program a few 
years ago?  It works great to backup every file from one Coco HD with 256 
virtual floppy drives to a second Coco harddrive of the same size much more 
quickly than BASIC could do, which takes forever.  Would a modification of 
that ML program work with DriveWire, so that I could copy everything from my 
Coco harddrive to the PC?  I'm guessing not.

Thanks!

-- Steve --


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boisy Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] drivewire surprise? Re: Chromasette


> Willard, et al,
>
> The COPY command most certainly does work under DriveWire.  I'm not  sure 
> why Steve hasn't thought about using it but it would certainly  work to 
> copy his files.
>
> You mean to tell me that YOU haven't bought a copy of DriveWire?  How 
> disappointing! :)
>
> On May 31, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Willard Goosey wrote:
>
>>> From: "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
>>> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:18:43 -0500
>>
>>> I would LOAD each file from the Coco floppy drive, then SAVE
>>> each file to the PC virtual disk.
>>
>> What, COPY doesn't work under drivewire?  How disappointing.
>>
>> Willard
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