[Coco] toolshed beta release

[Bill Pierce]

Tormod, how hard would it be to add a "backup" command to DECB?
Nothing complicated, just a simple sector-by-sector copy. A simple sector backup would backup both DECB and OS9 disks.
I've always wondered why this command was missing as almost all other commands have been represented.
The only way to do a true disk backup at the moment is either with a real Coco & DW4, or with an emulator.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 19, 2016 3:15 pm
Subject: [Coco] toolshed beta release

(toolshed - for manipulating OS-9 and DECB disk images onLinux/Mac/Windows and more)I have prepared a beta release of Toolshed 2.2 in the hope that it canget some testing before the real release. There is a zip for win32(should work fine on 64-bit as well) and a deb for Debian/Ubuntu64-bit (12.04 or later) in http://toolshed.sourceforge.net/snapshots/Since Toolshed 2.1 there are many fixes by Tim Lindner, David Ladd,Robert Gault and me, too many to be mentioned. Please see themercurial log athttps://sourceforge.net/p/toolshed/code/ci/default/tree/ (click at"History") which lists 77 commits since tag 2.1. Most fixes were tothese tools:os9 format (-l sets pd_typ, allocation bitmap fixes)os9 gen (respect cluster size, number of sides only for floppies)os9 free (cluster size, largest free block)decb copy (copy meta data)decb dir (print header, escape non-printing characters)decb dsave (new)The documentation recently received a brush-up from Tim and can be seen at http://toolshed.sourceforge.net/ToolShed.htmlThe help message of e.g. os9, decb, makewav will now list the Toolshedversion. The beta release shows "2.1", and only the final release willbe bumped to "2.2".There has also been a few updates to HDB-DOS which will be released aspart of Toolshed 2.2, but they are not included in the beta releasepackages (only the cross development tools).The home page for Toolshed is http://toolshed.sourceforge.net - orhttp://toolshed.sf.net to save keystrokes.Best regards,Tormod-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco