[Coco] Converting OS9 disk to DSK

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Tue Feb 15 01:32:13 EST 2005


IIRC, DSKINI.EXE formats a RSDOS disk on MSDOS. RETRIEVE.EXE copies files to
and from an RSDOS floppy.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>


> DSKINI.EXE goes MSDOS to floppy. RETRIEVE.EXE goes floppy to MSDOS.
>
> John Donaldson wrote:
> >  If I remember correctly, you use DSKINI.exe to convert a OS9 disk to
> > DSK. If I am
> > wrong then I may have killed my TSWORD disk. I did the following
> >
> > DSKINI   B:  C:\C6809\TSWORD.DSK
> >
> > I think this is suppose to format the DSK and copy everything from the
> > OS9 disk to the DSK.
> > When I was done MSDOS said the file TSWORD.DSK was about  88K in size.
> > When I try and do a DIR on  it from NitrOS9, al I get is ERROR #245 -
> > Write Error.




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