The FLOPY2.SY has an extra hidden character at the front of the file name which did not show up in my last post.
From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Gary Hammond Sent: Monday, 23 May 2016 9:38 PM To: 'Model 100 Discussion' <m100@lists.bitchin100.com> Subject: Re: [M100] New command line tool for TPDD and TPDD2 The following is what the tpdd-tool reports for the TPDD2 utility disk… TPDD-Tool>dir 0: FLOPY2.SY 11520 BACKUP.BA 1947 FREMEM.BA 373 186880 bytes free TPDD-Tool>cpd 0: util-disk Unable to load the file FLOPY2.SY [16, 'file does not exist'] <-- (This is with extra debugging code added to see the return code.) Copied BACKUP.BA Copied FREMEM.BA The TPDD seems to be throwing back a ‘file does not exist’ error code when I attempt to read the file. I suspect that this is a deliberate action by the TPDD. I will have a look at basic file ‘backup.ba’ to see how the backup program copies the disk. From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Mike Stein Sent: Monday, 23 May 2016 3:21 PM To: Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com <mailto:m100@lists.bitchin100.com> > Subject: Re: [M100] New command line tool for TPDD and TPDD2 It's been a while since this was discussed but my recollection is that the disk just has 'normal' files on it. There is of course a bootstrap *process*, which is pretty well documented here (for example): http://www.club100.org/library/libsup.html Hopefully Steve will join the discussion... m ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian White <mailto:bw.al...@gmail.com> To: Model 100 Discussion <mailto:m100@lists.bitchin100.com> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [M100] New command line tool for TPDD and TPDD2 I thought the original disk did have a special bootstrap process. If it doesn't then at least I would like to know that by actually having the original disk or a real image of it.
