[Coco] NitrOS-9 dsave command

Barry Nelson barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com
Sat Jul 25 16:44:28 EDT 2015


You could do what he wants, I have done it, but the syntax would be different with the new command vs the older one.

On Jul 25, 2015, at 1:18 AM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:38:33 -0400
> From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9 dsave command
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> Bill wrote:
>> Without manually creating each directory on /D1 and using the command CHD /DD/CMDS, DSAVE -S32 /D1/CMDS ! SHELL, all I ended up with was /D1 with every one of the files from every directory in one place.
>> 
> 
> The new version of dsave included with the NitrOS-9 disks uses only one 
> directory in the command line, the destination directory. That means you can't 
> do what you want. The original dsave command in OS-9 Level-II had both the 
> source and destinations in the command line.
> 
> In any case, you will need to create the target directory on the fresh disk, 
> move into the required directory on /DD, and then dsave to the target directory 
> on the new disk. Any sub-directories will automatically be created.
> 
> Robert



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