Re: Darn!!

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net> wrote:

:> Nevertheless, I'm getting less enthousiastic about ProDOS by the
:> minute... No Copy command? Kidding. Even MS-DOS had that. Not to mention
:> OS/8 for the PDP-8 and other much earlier os's...

: Well, ProDOS is a completely memory based OS limited to running
: generally in 64K (especially when it was first released).  A copy
: command would have taken up more memory...memory that was already
: in short supply to things like BASIC.SYSTEM.  This is also why
: Apple included System Utilities with all the Apple II's they shipped
: with ProDOS.

Exactly. BASIC was never intended to be a command shell. It is only there
to support running Applesoft programs. If you want a command shell complete
with copy commands 'n stuff, look at something like Davex or ECP8.

:> I have heard it is possible to copy binaries using some 'Bload' and
:> 'Bsave' procedure, but who knows this one?

: I would have spelled it out in my e-mail to you, but I'd have to
: sit down and go through it a couple of times before I could remember
: it fully.

It'd go something like:

CREATE <destpath>, T<type>
BLOAD <sourcepath>, A8192, T<type>
BSAVE <destpath>, A8192, L<source file eof>, T<type>

and that of course will only work for small files. 

The thing to do is get a command shell or real system utilities, and stop
trying to use BASIC for something it's not meant to do. It'll work much
easier that way.
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