[Coco] [coco] moving files on bootup

[George Ramsower]

Willard,

 As I said, the files will be changing.
 This means some will be deleteted and some will be added or changed. 
Therefore, a script to copy files would be constantly changing and will 
require my attention. This is not an option. It has to be automatic. Since 
the ram disk will start empty,thte routine should  just copy a directory to 
the ramdisk upon startup.
  A script to copy files will result in "Not Found"  error 216 because they 
won't be in the directory the shell script calls on if the file is deleted 
and files added won't get copied.
 This will be a dynamic directory on the floppy and the desired routine to 
copy a directory on eacnh boot should find the files and copy them to the 
ram disk. The files will be different each time..
 Dsave would requre at least two steps, and it also inserts an  undesired 
command , such as tmode - pause and tmode pause in the file it creates. I 
don't use -pause, so it requires another line to fix that.
 The reason I need this is for speed. The ram disk, as we all know, is a lot 
faster.  This coco does not have a hard dirve and therefore, it SO SLOW when 
accessing a mass storage medium(floppy). So, I have to use the ramdisk for 
this application.

> If you really mean to move the files, there are several "move" type
> commands on rtsi, but I've had problems that might have been caused by
> them.  YMMV.

 I suppose then, these would not be acceptable for my application
George


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey"

>
> Copy? You can add commands to startup, to copy whatever files you want
> to your ramdisk.
>

> I don't quite parse what you mean here...

I hope the first  thing I said on this post explained it.