[Coco] [coco] moving files on bootup

[Bob Devries]

Willard said:
> heard rumors that its ramdisk will actually survive reboots,

Yes, Rammer will survive a reboot, provided that the command "INIZ R0" is 
first in the startup file. I have used this quite successfully with my C 
compiling adventures.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [coco] moving files on bootup


> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:28:55PM -0600, George Ramsower wrote:
>> My currrent project will require that I move files from the floppy
>> drive(boot drive) to the ram disk in OS-9 upon boot up.
>
> Copy? You can add commands to startup, to copy whatever files you want
> to your ramdisk.
>
> 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.
>
>> These files can be changing from session to session. Therefore, they will
>> change. I intend to save them during the session, but when I re-boot..
>> well...
>
> I don't quite parse what you mean here...
>
> If you're using the "rammer" ramdisk in NitrOS or from rtsi, I've
> heard rumors that its ramdisk will actually survive reboots, but I've
> never tried it.
>
> AFAIK there's no way to make OS-9 catch a reset and run a command (or
> script) before rebooting.
>
> It shouldn't be to hard to make a little script to copy all your
> ramdisk files back to floppy.
>
> Willard
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