[Coco] Files to os9

Christopher Hawks chawks at dls.net
Fri Sep 26 22:29:10 EDT 2008


Ron Bihler said the following on 09/26/2008 08:28 PM:

>

> I was able to get the help message, unfortanatly it's not as clear as it

> could be. Or I just doing it wrong.

>

>

> New example.

>

> Main_dir - this is located under C drive

> Ribbs - this is withing Main_dir

> Disk.dsk - this is also located in the Main_dir. Already created and

> formated.

>

> If I moved to the Ribbs dir, then I type the full pathname to this Dir.

> This doesn't seem to make as much sense to me, but I also figure it's a

> syntax issue here.

>

> What format do I use ? PC or OS9 for the pathname

>

> I have tryed these combo,s

>

> Located in the Main_dir dierctory .

>

> os9 dsave c/Main_dir/ribbs disk.dsk

> os9 dsave c/main_dir/ribbs c/ribbs/disk.dsk

> os9 dsave ribbs disk.dsk

>

> I also moved into ribbs dir

> os9 dsave c/main_dir/ribbs disk.dsk


If my fading memory serves, you need to add the ',' after disk.dsk even tho
you are not specifying a directory inside disk.dsk

os9 dsave ribbs disk.dsk,

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