[Coco] Bike Shedding new SDC OS-9 Commands

[Kip Koon]

Hi Guys!
How about a command to format large format dsk files with hard drive sizes
as well.  I can see a need to specify the needed capacity as well and let
the command figure out the number of tracks and sides which it could print
out during its execution.  What do you think?

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon


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From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of tim lindner
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 11:00 PM
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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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