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

[Retro Canada]

dw will work fine without scdwn

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 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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