[Coco] "OS-9 pcdos" driver

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Bill, you are correct in that NitrOS9 includes the edition 11 patches, and both the RSDOS and PCDOS utilities work with it (I have used both). SDisk3 had more functionality even beyond that, though, and was required for the MSF file manager. 

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> On Jul 17, 2018, at 5:45 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> Curtis, as far as I know, the "CC3Disk11" patches and most of SDisk capabilities were built into the new NitrOS9 floppy drivers and the MSDOS utils should now work with standard NitrOS9 floppy drivers. Those drivers (SDisk etc) were also required to use the "RSDOS" utility to read RSDOS disks from OS9. The RSDOS utility runs fine under the current NitrOS9, so I would assume the "MSDOS" utility will as well.
> BTW... both the RSDOS & MSDOS utilities are on RTSI.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
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> Sent: Mon, Jul 16, 2018 9:16 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] "OS-9 pcdos" driver
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> There are couple of ways from back in the day. If you had the CC3Disk edition 11 patch, it then allowed you to use the PCDOS utility to read/write MSDOS disks (FAT12). There was a commercial solution as well that actually had a new file manager and disk driver (the file manager was called MSF, and the disk driver SDisk3), that also came with expanded “standard” utilities (like MSCOPY instead of COPY, MSFORMAT instead of FORMAT, etc.) that you let you work with both OS9 and MSDOS disks directly. It was much faster than the CC3Disk/PCDOS combination, but took a lot more system RAM. But we did use it at work. I believe it was from the company DP Johnson.L. Curtis Boylecurtisboyle at sasktel.netTRS-80 Color Computer Games websitehttp://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html> On Jul 16, 2018, at 6:49 PM, Stephen Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> wrote:> > Someone on Facebook is looking for an OS-9 driver to read / write MS-DOS disks. ( late 80s or early 90s )> > I know about reading / writing DECB and FLEX disks on OS-9 having used those drivers.> > But a MS-DOS driver for OS-9 my failing memory does not remember.> > SHF> > > > > -- > Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco> -- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
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