[Coco] Tool Shed Issues

[tim lindner]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 3:48 PM coco--- via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> All
>   Hi I just tried to transfer a 4.2MB file to the EOU hard driveimage
> which has 34 MB free but when I try to play it with the OS9 play program
> it fails. I did notice that Toolshed gave an error but the file ( or
> some of it transfers )

I just tried to re-create you situation and I got this error:

>  os9 copy big.txt EOU_Version1_0_1_\(6809_ONLY\)_04-07-2024/68SDC.VHD,big.txt
copy: error 217 on file 'big.txt' to
'EOU_Version1_0_1_(6809_ONLY)_04-07-2024/68SDC.VHD,big.txt': file is
too fragmented to be expanded further

That error is self explanatory.


> a 900K sterio wave file played just fine through my ORC90 clone with the
> command
> play -o MUSIC.wav
> the drive  image is on a CoCoSDC.
>
> The file that will not play is the same format as the MUSIC.wav file
> that will
> 16 bit wave file. Both files play fine on a PC
>
> Is there a program in OS9 to determine what the size of the transferred
> file is ?

The toolshed DIR command and the OS-9 DIR command both have an E
option to display sizes.
In my copy I only got the first 557,056 bytes of the file transferred.
The original file is 4,320,000 bytes.


> What is the current version of ToolShed so I can check to see if my up
> to date?

The source is here. You have to compile yourself to get the latest version.
https://github.com/nitros9project/toolshed


> Is there a maximum size file that can be transferred with toolshed ?

I've never calculated the maximum file size. But fragmentation will
decrease the maximum size.

A file can have 47 segments. Each segment can be 255 sectors long.
Each sector is 256 bytes.
Is that correct?

-- 
tim lindner

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