[Coco] Text Files in Coco OS-9

[Christopher Hawks]

Helio Emery Jr. said the following on 08/15/2011 07:06 PM:
>
> Thanks Lothan, with your directions I finally made it.
>
> My keyboard is not a regular US keyboard, but a Brasilian one, so I´m not able to use Ctrl+, (comma) and Ctrl+. (period).
> Neither Natural keyboard worked also, probably because of the same reason, not US keyboard.
> The trigraphs also didn´t work, I do not know why.
> But copying files from windows to OS-9 worked, but requires a little more work to get it done.
> Since OS-9 and windows have differences about CR/LF (carriage return / line feed) formats, I needed to address this before copying the files to OS-9.
>
> Obs: the correct comand for copying files is like bellow:
>
> os9 copy xxx.dsk,SOURCES/yourfile.c yourfile.c
> <or>                                                                   xxx.dsk is the disk image
> os9 copy yourfile.c xxx.dsk,SOURCES/yourfile.c
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Helio
>

Helio:

os9 copy -l xxx.dsk,SOURCES/yourfile.c yourfile.c
<or>
os9 copy -l yourfile.c xxx.dsk,SOURCES/yourfile.c

Will do the CR/LF conversions automatically.


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Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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