Fairlight-CMI

A big thanks for the info!

And I'm glad to have finally found a QDOS manual. I've been looking for one for quite a while. Now I can also start to play with my Motorola EXORset.

Best,
David


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Joe Sleator <joe.sleator@...> wrote:
>
> Your memory is sharp as a tack, Steve!
> 
> If, for whatever reason, you don't want to use the inbuilt "Transfer"
> funciton Steve mentioned, documented in the CMI Owner's Manual (1985) at
> C-2-10, you can boot your CMI with a QDOS diskette and use the COPY command
> as well.
> 
> Many people, including me, would probably be happy to make and mail you a
> QDOS utility diskette, in exchange for a known-good 8" floppy.
> .
> It's not better or easier, but may provide more precise control, depending
> on what you want to do.
> 
> > I'm guessing that there's a QDOS copy command that should allow this. But
> I don't have a QDOS manual.
> 
> It's documented in the Motorola MDOS (QDOS) (June 1979!) manual, which can
> be got here:
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/motorola/6800/
> Page 1 of Chapter 7.
> 
> Briefly, it works like this:
> 
> COPY MYFILE.RS:1, :0
> 
> Will copy MYFILE.RS from unit 1 (the righthand drive by default) to unit 0
> (the left one) which presumably will be your QDOS boot diskette.
> 
> The destination argument need only be a drive unit number, filename, or
> suffix, but can be all 3.
> 
> You'll then have to copy it from your QDOS boot diskette to your intended
> target diskette with something like:
> COPY MYFILE.RS:0, :1
> You can rename it whilst copying by specifying a new name, COPY MYFILE.RS:0,
> OTHERFILE.RS:1
> 
> IIRC, the CMI GUI version will use RAM to minimize diskette swaps, but if
> you are suspicious of your RAM it would be safer to use the QDOS command.
> QDOS is also handy for copying other kinds of files which are not CMI
> content files, i.e. not Instrument, Voice, RS, Sequence, or MCL files, to
> other floppies or floppy emulators.
> 
> Joe