[Coco] quick basic09 copy program

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:47:47 -0600, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>  
wrote:


> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:05:58AM -0600, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

>> I would definitely recommend in the startup file pre-loading the copy

>> command if you are going to do it this way...

>

> Yes, well, when I say "quick and dirty" I mean it.  What can one do?

> I'm not, by any means, a BASIC-09 expert.  Even this little program

> was a learning experience for me.  ("Oh yeah, huh, GET returns as much

> as will fit in the var passed to it!" :)

> The guy seemed to have some weird aversion to using dsave or

> wildcards, and I mostly wrote it based off of some of my other

> BASIC-09 code.  Which I found errors in by adapting to this. ;-)

>

>> How big are the files you are copying? You may be able to do  

>> OPEN/CREATE's

>> with the GetStat/SetStat calls for I$Read/I$Write to do it a lot faster

>> than forking a shell which then forks copy for every file...

>

> Now, that would be a useful subroutine module to have around.  Good

> idea!

>

> Willard


Using the I$ calls also means to you can DIM a byte array for the largest  
size you need, but you can control the # of bytes read/written every time  
you call it (unlike GET/PUT, which simply uses the variable's size). I  
used this a lot when we still ran Coco's here at work for processing  
data...

-- 
L. Curtis Boyle