[Coco] Mystery program

N8WQ exwn8jef at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 22:23:56 EDT 2009


Hi Bob,
Thanks. That is a nice utility to have. I have a lot of disk images and 
now I can see what is on them if they are in DECB format. I wonder who 
wrote this program?

Alan Jones

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Bob Devries wrote:
> Alan,
>
> I have that programme here too.
> It seems to be a programme to quickly show the directory of a Disk 
> Basic disk image file (.DSK)
>
> DECBDSK BLAH.DSK
>
> gives a directory such as you would expect if the disk was in your Coco.
> I have no idea where mine came from.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "N8WQ" <exwn8jef at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 6:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Mystery program
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>
>> Ok, when I run command in DOS I get this response:
>> IMAGE FILE NAME: /?
>>
>> Alan Jones
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>> Neil Morrison wrote:
>>> This runs in MSDOS? Try decbdsk /?
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "N8WQ" <exwn8jef at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> I was cleaning up my CoCo files and I found one called 
>>>> "decbdsk.exe". The file size is 17,410 bytes. When I run the 
>>>> command by itself in DOS I get "No files!" Does anyone no what this 
>>>> program is for? I forget where I downloaded the program. Thanks...
>>>>
>>>> Alan Jones
>>>
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