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

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

I can send you the rawcopy.asm later if you want. Need to improve it by
deleting the file if it already exists (when rawcopying from a device to a
file).


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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