[Coco] 'arc' copy command and Stack Overflow (ERROR #207)

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Be careful, NitrOS-9 has changed some related things.

My similar Archive program counted on the return code from Disk Full to stop and tell the user.

Upon changing the syntax for another utility I thought I was done.

Then I discovered that the disk full error was not being returned to the program.

Thus I needed to put a warning on my Colorful Sled text editor that use with floppies or other small disks with little remaining space was not advised.

No where to report the problem, no one interested, no one to fix it.

Back in the Delphi days a report would have produced a fix to OS-9 in days, maybe even from Kevin Darling.

SHF
 
Attached is a PDF of the commands, binary is on SHF888 on my web page:

http://home.mindspring.com/~sfischer1/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen Huffman" <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] 'arc' copy command and Stack Overflow (ERROR #207)


>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> My arc has crc $B12074 and says ed2. There are other archive programs such as lha that might have a larger capacity.
> 
> 
> Ah. This "arc" is not an archiver -- it's a file copier, and one of the most-used tools I have ever used on OS-9. I will type out the help screen:
> 
> arc -?
> 
> Usage: arc [-acdeflmuv] from_dir to_dir
>     a = all files
>     c = confirm file if not there
>     d = confirm non-existant directory
>     e = confirm existing directory
>     f = prevent copy of files
>    ln = only n levels of the tree (1..9)
>     m = do multilple (all) directories <- typo not mine
>     v = verify the copy
>     u = force uppercase for comparisons
> 
> I think Bill Pearce (?) was the one who said he also used it. I do not recall where I got it from, but it's amazing. I have never had it fail until tonight ;-)
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