[Coco] Organizing CoCo files?

[Allen Huffman]

I have started working on my organization project. Here is what I have come up with so far:

1. I have multiple DSK images I made from old media — SyQuest EZ135 disks, Compact Flash cards (from the Cloud-9 IDE interface), and CoCoSDC images.

I had multiple backups and variations of my EZ135 stuff, and I imaged every disk. One would have been my “working disk” and the others would have been backups. As I migrated from one format to the next, I’d copy over my “working disk” to the new storage. What did I lose along the way?

2. I used a script that would loop through a directory and any .DSK image it finds will have its content extracted to a subdirectory with the same name. This uses the Toolshed “os9 dsave” command. I also do the linefeed translation so I can look at any text files.

3. I then use various “de-duplication” programs (Gemini 2 and Duplicate File Finder on Mac) to go through and delete duplicate files. Tons of copies of “shell” and other system files will get removed.

At this point, I am still working through steps. I used a sync tool to try to sync all the folders together into one folder, allowing me to then organize that.

BUT, there are many duplicate filenames that have different contents, so I am fine tuning my steps so I can preserve all the copies. Like, if I have “invaders.asm” I might have different versions of that file on different disks, and I want to keep them all so I can later diff them and see which one is the latest.

Fun project.

4. Will be to take the master folders of text stuff — .txt, .c, .asm, .b09, etc. — and then copy that back to my data disk I mount when booting from the Ease of Use install.

Work in progress. When I get steps that work, I will publish a full tutorial of what I did on www.subethasoftware.com and make the scripts I used available.

Cheers…