[Coco] Nother question, deldir in a script this time

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 18 October 2012 10:54:44 Retro Canada did opine:

> can you format the /x0 if so you can backup from it to /sh too. i was
> doing it.

I assume I could just touch a filename, chown it, mount it to /x0 and 
format that?  But I haven't enough memory to run format now. ISTR the midi 
stuff is still in there.
> 
> try to remove the midi and network stuff    and you should be able to
> format a floppy. i think the best would be having multiple boots for
> the desired action and make an autoexec. bas that will automatically
> link it.

I can remove the midi descriptor, but does dw work at all without scdwn? as 
that would disable all the /n stuff.  OTOH telnet is essentially worthless 
as it quits at the touch of a missplaced finger, including the backspace 
key to fix a typu, so I probably could do without it.  Hummm.  I'll give 
that a shot.  What should I do to inetd.conf or will that bail gracefully 
when it can't find an /n channel to use?

> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 2012-10-18, at 12:19 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Specifically, how can I pass deldir the d character so when its in a
> > script it doesn't interpret the next line of the script as garbage
> > and abort.
> > 
> > I've tried deldir name <d with and without the <, but I've not put the
> > d by itself on the next line.
> > 
> > Even though I can't format a floppy, not quite enough contiguous free
> > memory I guess, I have managed to build a boot disk on a floppy, that
> > when backed up to /sh, boots the system from the hard drive with the
> > new bootfile.
> > 
> > Nitros9's backup is funkity doing that however, when it gets to the
> > end of the floppy at sector 276, it starts reporting disk ID change
> > for non- existent sectors beyond 276, and has essentially crashed,
> > stuck in a loop. When it got to 282 I hit the reset button & it
> > booted right back up. Using the new bootfiles.
> > 
> > Unforch, the few /n descriptors I was able to pull out of the
> > bootlist, did not free enough memory to format a floppy. OTOH, I am
> > now booting from the hard drive WITH dw enabled.  I think that could
> > be called progress, but no capitals please. ;-)
> > 
> > Thanks all who might know something about deldir in a script.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> 
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