[Coco] Bike Shedding new SDC OS-9 Commands

[Brett Gordon]

Tim... sounds perfect.  I thought of contributing myself to learn a
bit more about OS9 user programming.  Probably the hardest part for
these utilities would be the command line parsing :)



On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:04 PM, tonym <tonym at compusource.net> wrote:
> Might this be something that should be added to existing commands as additional feature/function?
> Or too much complication in that?
>
> Just thinking out loud...
>
> Tony
>
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "tim lindner" <tlindner at macmess.org>
> Sent: 11/12/2014 11:00:21 PM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: [Coco] Bike Shedding new SDC OS-9 Commands
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality
>
> Darren said he had one person offer to make OS-9 commands, but it
> would have to wait after a project. So I decided to offer up my
> services as well.
>
> What should they be named? How should they work?
>
> I propose:
>
> sdir
>
> A command with no parameters that prints out a list of disk images
> available on the SDC.
>
> sdrive n name
>
> A command with two parameters:
>
> n - 0 or 1 - the drive number to attach a new disk image
>
> name - The 8.3 file name to attach.
>
> sformat [SDF] tracks sides
>
> Optional SDF parameter to invoke creating an SDF image, otherwise a
> normal disk image is created.
> tracks - the number of tracks
> sides - the number of sides
>
> [I guess it'll have to do a logical format as well]
>
> seject 0/1
>
> Eject a disk image from slot 0 or 1
>
> sconfig
>
> No parameters. Prints out the current images attached to the slots.
>
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