[Coco] [CoCo] Just learning OS-9 - Questions

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Tue May 28 11:43:52 EDT 2013


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
<retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Talking about transfering files I just had a problem this week. As I don't
> have a PC with internal floppy drive - they are so 80's :o) i had to rely
> on driveWire and use my coco gear to make it. And I found that transferring
> a non OS-9 40 track floppy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one)
> impossible with the tools I had in hands. No, RS-DOS backup will stop at
> atrack 35 and OS-9 backup starts writing the LSN0 and screws the drive
> access so far.
>
> I tried making a Basic09 program and I found it has issues beyond track 35
> too, so I made my very own rawcopy tool for os-9 that copies the raw file
> or raw device to another device, but it skips the LSN0 and it will copy it
> as a final step. So i can use it as: rawcopy /x1@ /d0@ or even rawcopy
> image.dsk /d0@ and it worked fine :)
>

Cool!  I have wished for such a thing more than once but never sorted
out how to do it beyond finding that giving the raw devs to regular
copy doesn't work.



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