[Coco] Looking for a DECB directory utlity

[Arthur Flexser]

There was a stand-alone program I wrote called MENU.BIN on the Extended ADOS-3
disk that is similar to what he describes, and which, after being configured,
was also incorporated into the Ext. ADOS-3 EPROM as the MENU command.  I think
there was also an earlier version for the 32-column screen, not written by me,
that was called BOOT.BAS (or possibly BOOT.BIN) that was included with some
earlier ADOS versions.

These programs were based in part on the utility Tony was probably thinking of,
a program by Jeff Francis called "Disk Utility" or DUT, or something like that.
Marty Goodman, myself, and a few other people informally sold various copies by
word of mouth, sometimes through CoCo user groups, and forwarded the proceeds to
Jeff for a while;  I don't know of its ever having been formally marketed.  It
was in some ways more powerful than the MENU command in Ext. ADOS-3, in that it
could do formatting and also had a handy "Super Copy" feature that allowed the
user to highlight a subset of files to be copied from one disk to another in a
single operation, and a "Super Kill" feature for similar selective file
deletions.

Art

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Chester A Patterson wrote:

> I seem to recall ADOS had something like that... O perhaps my mem is
> fading from all the rain we're getting.
> /Chester
> Costa Rica 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Cappellini [mailto:cappy2112 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:46 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: [Coco] Looking for a DECB directory utlity
> 
> I used to use a great directory utility program under DIsk Basic.
> 
> We called it 'Z;  (this may not be the original name, but I can't
> remember anything other than that) It was something like Windows
> Explorer from W95 days (or Xtree Gold from MS DOS).
> 
> It had two panels, where one side was the source the other was the
> destination.
> It was great for copying files between floppies, renaming files,
> formatting floppies, etc.
> 
> I remember needing the 64K upgrade to run it.
> 
> Does anyone remember or have this program?
> 
> 
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