[Coco] RSDOS Disk Copy Utility needed

[Arthur Flexser]

The utility you mention was probably added to the ADOS disk rather than
being on it originally;  I don't recollect the name Back128 at all.
Extended ADOS-3 had exactly what you want built in:
you could give the command BACKUP 0 TO 1,F and the F option would cause the
destination disk to be formatted.  The command was also optimized:  only
occupied grans were copied, which saves a lot of time in copying an only
partially-full disk.  Plus, the order in which sectors on a track were
copied was optimized so that there was quite a bit of time savings even when
copying a full disk.  On top of that, there was a built-in Ramdisk, so if
you were making multiple copies of the same source, you could first copy the
source disk to a Ramdrive and save further time.  I think there may have
been a stand-alone backup utility on the Extended ADOS-3 disk, but it
probably didn't have the F option.  Maybe the Back128 utility is that,
possibly renamed?
Art

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Can anyone remommend a Disk Copy utility that will do an anutomatic format
> on the destination disk? I have a 2 drive system, 512K Coco 3 and would like
> a disk copy utility that is not OS-9 that will auto format destination disks
> during the copy process.I am using a utility now called Back128 that is on
> an old ADOS disk. It works great but does not have the format option built
> in.
>
> Thank you
>
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