[Coco] toolshed

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:14:39 -0400
Greg Law <glaw at live.com> wrote:

> From: David Ladd
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:46 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] toolshed
> 
> > You can also do it this way too:
> > os9 copy -l test.txt work.dsk,
> >
> > The comma is required on the very end of the disk image filename to
> > get it to treat the file as a disk image rather than a file.  A
> > little odd to get use to as when formatting/creating a disk image a
> > comma is not needed. One of those things where context changes
> > depending on the os9 command you are using.
> 
> One thing I learned from poking about the nitros9 make files that's
> not so easy to grok from the documentation is that apparently you can
> copy a whole slew of files to a disk image at once like this:
> 
> os9 copy test1.txt test2.txt test3.txt test4.txt ... test999.txt
> work.dsk,
> 
> Now if I could just figure out how to do something like "os9 copy
> folder\* work.dsk," to copy an entire folder at once.

	Works (on linux).


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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