[Coco] Tim Lindner or Boisy, os9.exe

Boisy Pitre boisy at tee-boy.com
Tue Oct 28 07:01:12 EDT 2008


Roger,

This sounds like a bug specific to the Windows port, which Robert  
Gault manages.  Robert can probably chime in here on what the issue  
may be.

Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre
--
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On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:

> Tim or Boisy,
>
> The version of os9.exe I have hopefully is the latest copy for  
> Windows.
>
> The problem I'm seeing is os9.exe reports ERROR #248 when I supply  
> full pathnames for the source file amd/or destination virtual disk.
>
> For example:
>
> os9 copy -r "c:\Program Files\Rainbow IDE\Projects\CoCo\RMA\Files 
> \main.r" "c:\Program Files\Rainbow IDE\Projects\CoCo\RMA\Disks 
> \test.dsk","main.r"
> ERROR #248
>
> Now, if I set my current directory to c:\Program Files\Rainbow IDE 
> \Projects\CoCo\RMA", the following works fine:
>
> os9 copy -r "Files\main.r" "Disks\test.dsk","main.r"
>
>
> In finding this bug, I may have found an improvement to my software  
> (or not).  I like to supply full pathnames to the called compilers,  
> assemblers, linkers, and imaging tools, but now I think I'll leave  
> it an option via a checkbox somewhere to pass relative or full paths  
> for the filenames that go in the command strings.
>
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