[Coco] DECB and BACKUP

[Barry Nelson]

Do you have a CoCo 1 or 2, or a CoCo 3? If you have a CoCo 3 I have a program that backs up disks in one pass and can access Drivewire disk partitions under HDBDOS. I also have a vanilla version for RSDOS or SDCDOS. I have not written a special SDCDOS version yet...

On Aug 30, 2015, at 7:48 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:11:41 -0500
> From: Ron <ron at kdomain.org>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: [Coco] DECB and BACKUP
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> Hi everyone,
> 
> Is there a way to do BACKUPs in DECB without it clearing the contents of 
> the BASIC program in memory?
> 
> I'm trying to transfer many floppy disks to a CoCoSDC and the BACKUP 
> command works great.  I wrote something that helps speed the process up, 
> but the BASIC program is gone when the BACKUP operation completes.  I 
> thought I remember reading something about BACKUP needing as much RAM as 
> it can to do what it does.  I'm just looking for a way around this so 
> the running program will continue.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Ron