[Coco] Looking for utilities for the following chores....

[K. Pruitt]

Thanks for the DW info, Aaron.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Looking for utilities for the following chores....


> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> 
> wrote:
>> K. Pruitt wrote:
>>>
>>> Some of the things I would like to do is:
>>>
>>> 1. Create blank virtual disks for use with Drivewire 4 (currently I am
>>> using
>>> pre-existing blank virtual disks)
>>
>>
>> You don't need any utilities for this purpose as DW4 will do the job.
>> From the DW4 interface, right click on a drive number and select "Create 
>> new
>> disk for drive #".
>> A new window will open where you can enter the name of an existing file 
>> in
>> the blank. If you want a name that does not yet exist (as a zero byte 
>> file),
>> click on the [...] and select the directory you want and enter a new file
>> name.
>> This will 'create' a disk but it can't yet be used. You must format the 
>> disk
>> either with the Disk Basic DSKI or the OS-9 Format commands. These 
>> commands
>> are issued from your Coco.
>>
>>
>>> 2. Copy files from my PC (let's say text files from the My Documents
>>> directory)
>>> to those virtual disks which I could then access via my Coco.
>>
>>
>> If you use a current OS that does not have DOS, you need either the 
>> Toolshed
>> package (a Sourceforge project), imgtool/wimgtool (from MESS), or some of
>> the tools mentioned on this list.
>>
>
> Only one thing to add.. the ability to format DECB disk images and add
> files to them is also built into DW4 (admittedly not well documented
> though!)
>
> The DECB image manipulation commands all start with 'dw disk dos'
> (which can be abbreviated 'dw d d')
>
> dw disk dos add # path   -  adds the file at any URI or local path to
> DECB disk in drive #
> dw disk dos dir # - show directory of DECB disk in drive #
> dw disk dos format # - format image in drive # for DECB
> dw disk dos list # filename - list contents of filename from DECB disk
> image in drive #
>
> the list command useful for quickly transferring a file from DECB disk
> to OS9, i.e:
>
> dw d d l 0 MYBASIC.BAS > /dd/stuff/mybasic.bas
>
> The dw commands may be entered in the command box of the graphical UI,
> at the OS9 command prompt, or from CoCoboot with the 'dw' word loaded.
> (Someday we really need to add the 'dw' abilities to the DECB prompt too).
>
> So, technically you could do the op's entire process with DW4 alone.
> Toolshed is still a very good thing to have around for anything more
> complicated though.
> DW can only append files to disks, no delete or anything like that.
>
>>
>>> 3. Copy real RSDOS disks from my Coco to virtual disks via Drivewire. 
>>> When
>>> I try
>>> this it appears to be successful but the virtual disks always revert to
>>> their
>>> blank state.
>>>
>>
>> You don't need any utilities for this purpose as DW4 will do the job.
>> On the DW4 menubar, select Tools/HDBDOS translation. You should then see 
>> a
>> message Item 'HDBDOSMode' set to 'true'. Select it again and you should 
>> see
>> Item 'HDBDOSMode' set to 'false'. You want this mode turned on or TRUE.
>>
>> Now mount a blank or scrap disk in the DW4 server drive0. Mount on your 
>> Coco
>> the disk to transfer in drive1. Enter the HDBDOS command DRIVEOFF0. This
>> will make drive0 a real Coco drive and drive1 a DW4 drive. Use BACKUP0TO1 
>> or
>> the COPY command.
>>
>> You can also transfer files from DW4 to you Coco.
>>
>>
>>> Are there utilities (or even just instructions) out there that do these
>>> tasks
>>> successfully?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> If 1. or 3. above don't work, you either have Write Protect turned on in 
>> DW4
>> or have used a Read Only directory on your PC.
>>
>>
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