[Coco] [coco] moving files on bootup

[Bob Devries]

George,
if you use the modified copy command from RTSI, alongside the wildcard 
available in Shell 2,.2 (maybe it was in 2.1 also??) you can do something 
like this:

CD /R0
:COPY -W=/DD/TARGET_DIR -F *

If memery serves, this will copy all the files found on /R0 to the directory 
TARGET_DIR on /DD and if one already exists, the -F will overwrite the file. 
(note the colon (:) at the start of the line of the copy command.

HTH.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower" <georgeramsower at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [coco] moving files on bootup


> 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.
>
>
>
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