[Coco] toolshed

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2013-11-29 à 17:02:00, Wayne Campbell a écrit :

> It looks like I'll be waiting until all the files have been copied from 
> those images. the command window is just too limited and slows me down 
> too much. I will continue to work on it, but I would rather have a gui 
> utility for dealing with files and disk images.

Depends also on whether on MS-Windows there are enough tools for 
interaction between the command window and other windows, and whether you 
know them.

For example, on Ubuntu (Linux), you can drag-and-drop from the File 
Manager to the command window, and it automatically writes the full path, 
with quotes, ready to be used in a command. That's easier than having to 
type everything.

There's also the Tab shortcut for auto-completing filenames... which saves 
a lot of typing when dealing with long filenames in a command window (when 
you're not using the drag-and-drop tricks). I don't recall whether this 
feature exists on MS-Windows.

The cool thing about commandline tools is that you can do batch-files 
based on them. I wrote some batch-files for massive extraction of all coco 
files of a multi-disk image. (mine are not CMD-compatible, though, because 
CMD doesn't exist on Linux)

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