[Coco] Transfer utilities

[George Ramsower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries"


> George, it is possible to create a .dsk file from a bootable OS9 disk, but 
> without a hard drive, it is difficult.
> The .dsk format is simply all the sectors of the disk saved end-to-end as 
> one file.
>
> It is fairly trivial to write a Basic09 programme to do this, but that's 
> assuming you have a hard disk on your coco.
>
> If you don't have a hard disk, you would need to create the .dsk file in 
> several "blocks" of some arbitrary (but smaller) size, move them to the 
> PC, and JOIN them together there.
>
> What is your current hardware setup on your coco 3?


 I have a 30 meg SCSI drive attached and it it my love for this coco.

 If  I understand your message correctly, I could simply get each sector, 
compile them into a single file and call it a .dsk file?

Why wasn't I told this before?

 This is great! I love it!

 I'll try it.

George