#: 12292 S1/General Interest
    19-Sep-91  22:23:50
Sb: #12286-#RSDOS TO OS9
Fm: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762
To: Paul Hanke 73467,403 (X)

     I'm puzzled. For years now I've watched people describe their troubles
using DOSOR9. I used to use it too, with all the problems of maximum file size,
oddly set up disks (track 0 unused; my files ALWAYS seemed to end up on track
zero), too much fragmentation, and so on.

     The reason I'm puzzled is that for a long time now I've been using a MUCH
nicer program, RSDOS (downloaded from RSDOS.AR). RSDOS (and its sister program
PCDOS), operating under OS9, allows you to read DECB directories, read or write
DECB files (writing allows a bunch of switches for file type, etc.) and do
deletes from DECB disks. It doesn't seem to have an upper limit to file size,
nor does it care about track 0 on the DECB disk.

     So why do I seem to be the only one using it? I'm sure it came from one of
the libraries here, so take a look. Oh, it requires either SDISK or the patched
CC3Disk to operate. If you try it I suspect you'll relegate DOSOR9 to a
suitable archive disk.

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