[Coco] Text Files in Coco OS-9

[Helio Emery Jr.]

Thanks Christopher, worked lika a charm!!
Helio > Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:31:38 -0500
> From: chawks at dls.net
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Text Files in Coco OS-9
> 
> Helio Emery Jr. said the following on 08/15/2011 07:06 PM:
> >
> > Thanks Lothan, with your directions I finally made it.
> >
> > My keyboard is not a regular US keyboard, but a Brasilian one, so I´m not able to use Ctrl+, (comma) and Ctrl+. (period).
> > Neither Natural keyboard worked also, probably because of the same reason, not US keyboard.
> > The trigraphs also didn´t work, I do not know why.
> > But copying files from windows to OS-9 worked, but requires a little more work to get it done.
> > Since OS-9 and windows have differences about CR/LF (carriage return / line feed) formats, I needed to address this before copying the files to OS-9.
> >
> > Obs: the correct comand for copying files is like bellow:
> >
> > os9 copy xxx.dsk,SOURCES/yourfile.c yourfile.c
> > <or>                                                                   xxx.dsk is the disk image
> > os9 copy yourfile.c xxx.dsk,SOURCES/yourfile.c
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> > Helio
> >
> 
> Helio:
> 
> os9 copy -l xxx.dsk,SOURCES/yourfile.c yourfile.c
> <or>
> os9 copy -l yourfile.c xxx.dsk,SOURCES/yourfile.c
> 
> Will do the CR/LF conversions automatically.
> 
> 
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