textfiles/messages/ALANWESTON/1993/CIS02_28.txt

#: 17554 S1/General Interest
    21-Feb-93  01:08:44
Sb: #17547-#Letter reciept
Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
To: BOB LEET 72020,2536 (X)

Dear Bob, I mailed off the check yesterday(friday) morning. You should get it
monday or tuesday, I would hope.

With all best wishes, Br. Jeremy, CSJW

(Sorry, this is CIS not some other network)

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#: 17562 S1/General Interest
    21-Feb-93  16:40:23
Sb: #17554-#Letter reciept
Fm: BOB LEET 72020,2536
To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)

Dear Brother Jeremy,

        Thanks for the reply.  I just wanted to make sure that you received the
letter okay.

                        Take care,
                        Bob//////
 

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#: 17567 S1/General Interest
    22-Feb-93  00:54:56
Sb: #17562-Letter reciept
Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
To: BOB LEET 72020,2536

Dear Bob: Yes I had received it last tuesday morning. I'll be in touch when the
packages arrive, so that you'll know that they got here okay. With all best
wishes, Br. Jeremy, CSJW

#: 17558 S3/Languages
    21-Feb-93  10:17:21
Sb: #17478-#struct pointer trouble
Fm: Kevin Pease 70516,1633
To: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166 (X)

You could ask the c compiler to generate the assembler code and then just
optimize
that code. Much easier than manually convertinng to ASM

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#: 17561 S3/Languages
    21-Feb-93  15:37:07
Sb: #17558-struct pointer trouble
Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
To: Kevin Pease 70516,1633

Hi Kevin... I find compiler generated assembler code very confusing. Everything
is stacked. I find I get lost quickly. I'm still playing with it tho...

#: 17579 S5/OS9 Users Group
    28-Feb-93  03:00:20
Sb: #17496-For Sale
Fm: James 72467,1036
To: BOB LEET 72020,2536

Hi bob

Is the printer you're sell the Tandy CGP-220? If so, you have a buyer!!!

James


#: 17556 S7/Telecommunications
    21-Feb-93  10:16:37
Sb: #17446-#terminal help
Fm: Kevin Pease 70516,1633
To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)

There is a simple hardware hack that will eliminate the problem. If you are
interested I will post. Since off hand I do not remember the pins to jumper. It
requires two jumpers on the back of the MM1 processor board.

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#: 17564 S7/Telecommunications
    21-Feb-93  17:44:06
Sb: #17556-terminal help
Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
To: Kevin Pease 70516,1633

Kevin,

Eliminate which problem? The keyboard apparently generating spurious characters
during disk access? Or the serial port dropping characters? I'm with Mark, now,
that most of the dropped characters are due to screen updates, maybe we can all
gang up on KD? <grin>

        -Bill-

#: 17555 S7/Telecommunications
    21-Feb-93  10:16:11
Sb: #17440-terminal help
Fm: Kevin Pease 70516,1633
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Bob  you should probably set the transfer count to a lower number. You can use
dmode on your hard disk descriptor when you want to do data com. The parameter
to change is maxcount. What happens is that the fast hard disks monopolize the
68070 bus and cause the lost characters. If you have a padle board you might
want to use t3 for modem use as it has a 4 character buffer built into the
duart. That could reduce the problems. If you need a paddle board let me know.
I may be able to sell you one.

#: 17557 S7/Telecommunications
    21-Feb-93  10:17:11
Sb: #17444-#terminal help
Fm: Kevin Pease 70516,1633
To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)

Mark we need to bug KD about the hardware scrolling since that would most
likely
help to solve that problem.

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#: 17566 S7/Telecommunications
    21-Feb-93  22:24:37
Sb: #17557-terminal help
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Kevin Pease 70516,1633

Kevin...thought you'd disappeared completely. Nice to see your presence here.
Yes, we must bug KD about the hardware scrolling and some other promised
goodies...like real F-keys. Unfort, seems he is busy making a real living these
days <grin>.

#: 17565 S7/Telecommunications
    21-Feb-93  17:44:19
Sb: #17548-Unzip w/ inflate
Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Bob,

The only unix library I'm aware of is for OSK, I think its in LIB 12. The
source code is included, though, so that might help Don out.

        -Bill-

#: 17568 S7/Telecommunications
    22-Feb-93  09:25:49
Sb: #17548-Unzip w/ inflate
Fm: Don Kircher 76346,3475
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

 After fooling with the file a bit, I'm deciding that simply setting the UNIX
flag is not enough. Running a compile through to the assembly source on the
coco yields a four line file! With so many versions of UNIX running out there,
which one for flag setting purposes might be closest to OS9?
 The header file unzip.h makes allowances for everthing from a Cray computer to
an Amiga. Just how different are SUN and GCC UNIX? MINIX is also mentioned.
  My orginal strategy was to simply define it for UNIX and then #include all
the coco headers just to see if it would compile.
  It is starting to look [ into the future ] like a new computer will be forced
simply to maintain compatability with mundane utilities! How frustrating it is
to have perfectly functional equipment [obsolete] which is paid for, and not be
able to maintain simple compatability? It makes one want to rush off to
programming school as if there were time for such activities.
 I've noticed that the current version of PKUNZIP is changing almost weekly.
 Most recently the FAA switched to version 2.xxG. ( from versions C and E just
since mid January!) PK must own IBM stock..
 Thanks for your reply.
 dlk

#: 17552 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    20-Feb-93  20:36:26
Sb: #17535-4in1 6551 blues?
Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051
To: Sandy Tipper 72060,76 (X)

Sandy,

  A couple of thoughts on your 4in1.   Do you have a power supply hooked up?
Also could it be possible that you might have your cable hooked up backwards at
your board?  I have the 4in1 & an SC2.  I'm using the cable that came with it
and the cable comes out at the bottom.  I know that these are some obvious
things, but sometimes we do overlook the obvious, so please don't be offended.
  Oh, looking back at your msg, you mentioned using xcom9 with mwp.  You might
try using your non-wiz programs with the standard drivers.  (That might be what
you meant when you said "correct" drivers.
   Oh, BTW, I have my Disto clock patched for the IRQ toggle hack that appeared
in the Aug(?) '91(?) '90(?) Rainbow.  I tried to fool around with Wiz and
proacia and after exiting the program, if I turned my modem off, my system
would lock up.
  Anyway, If you haven't already tried, try using ACIAPak and a standard
version of "t2" (modified for the Disto Port) and see what happens.
  Good luck, and if you don't get going, we'll try something else.

    David

#: 17551 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    20-Feb-93  16:42:30
Sb: ATCOCO
Fm: PHIL SCHERER 71211,2545
To: MIKE HAALAND 72300,1433 (X)

Hi Mike--Thanks to Br. Jeremy, I have a copy of your ATCOCO file. I have a
question about item 6 under preparation. It says to solder a jumper between the
cathode(positive) end of D2 to the anode(negative) end of D14. I always
understood the cathode to be negative and the anode to be positive. I dont want
to fry my machine. Your help on this would be greatly appreciated.

#: 17553 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    20-Feb-93  22:21:23
Sb: 6309 and One Meg
Fm: james pottage 71750,2012
To: Bob Van der Pool

Thanks for the reply. Everything seems to be working fine except the two Ram
drives. However, I tested the one from Owl Wares Window writer and it works
fine, except if I format it with more than 64 blocks (512K) I get an error 237.
I believe my boot files is to large to handle a bigger ramdrive. The 6309 and
one meg seem a great combination- almost limitless space and great speed.
Thanks for again,       Jim

#: 17576 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    27-Feb-93  12:38:33
Sb: RSDOS Plus
Fm: randy pischke 75460,205
To:  72007,1737

Craig,
    I can't seem to get your RSDOS plus program to work. I have the edition #11
of CC3DISK which works with PCDOS. I get an error 10 and it points to the dash
that preceeds the commands. i.e. -dir. Any help would be appreciated.

#: 17570 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    23-Feb-93  22:39:30
Sb: #17541-#MM1 and IMS worries
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 (X)

Hi Hugo,

I wouldn't worry about Paul's phone being disconnected... it happens from time
to time (used to happen a lot with me, too ;-).   Huge phone bills, forgetting
to pay on time, etc.

One thing Paul doesn't seem to be is a quitter, that's for sure.  Some of the
problems he's had would've made most people bail out long ago.

cheers - kev

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#: 17571 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    24-Feb-93  21:32:32
Sb: #17570-#MM1 and IMS worries
Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)

Hi Kevin,

Paul may be dedicated, but that doesn't seem to be helping delivery time. From
my point of view, the money is spent but there's no product in my hands.  I
want delivery.

Hugo

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#: 17572 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    25-Feb-93  21:04:40
Sb: #17571-MM1 and IMS worries
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 (X)

Hugo,

I understand, and agree.

cheers - kev

#: 17573 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    25-Feb-93  23:58:26
Sb: #C help
Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
To: all



  Can someone tell me the correct way to send window display codes from C.
I have been fighting with this for a couple of weeks now, and not getting
any closer.
  I want to send the codes to turn the mouse pointer on & off, as well as
the code to move the pointer to a specified position.

  The only way I have been able to get the pointer on & off code to work, is
to use this form...

#define ESC  31            /*  1f 28 = mouse pointer on  */
#define OFF  40            /*  1f 29 = mouse pointer off */
#define ON   41

  Then when I want to send the code, I do the following..

   putchar(ESC);
   putchar(OFF);

       or

   putchar(ESC);
   putchar(ON);

   This seems to me to be a very dumb way of doing this, but its the only
way that seems to work.
   I can't find any way yet to do the mouse positioning code.
       1b 4e hbx lbx hby lby

   Any help would be greatly appreciated.

larry olson



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#: 17574 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    26-Feb-93  07:32:10
Sb: #17573-#C help
Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
To: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467 (X)

Larry,

First you have to turn off buffering for stdout, like this:

  setbuf(stdout, NULL);

Then you should be able to do something like:

  puts("\0x1F\0x28");

For mouse positioning, it might be easier to do this:

  char mouse_pos[7];
  unsigned short x, y;

  mouse_pos[0] = 0x1b;
  mouse_pos[1] = 0x4e;
  mouse_pos[6] = 0;


  mouse_pos[2] = x >> 8;
  mouse_pos[3] = x & 0xFF;
  mouse_pos[4] = y >> 8;
  mouse_pos[5] = y & 0xFF;
  puts(mouse_pos);

There are probably better ways to do this, this is just off the top of my head.

There's also a cgfx.l for KWindows floating around somewhere, but I don't know
if it has calls for the mouse, I would assume it does.

        -Bill-

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#: 17575 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    26-Feb-93  23:58:21
Sb: #17574-C help
Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)

Bill,
   That looks like it should work, I'll give it a try. I think I see what you
are doing.  Its funny, everyone says that pointers are a pain in C, but with me
its character input & output. It just hasn't clicked yet.

Thanks again larry

#: 17578 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    28-Feb-93  02:59:36
Sb: #17574-C help
Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)

Bill,
  I still can't seem to get it to work.

  When you use:
    setbuf(stdout, null);

   in order to shut off buffering, what do you use to turn it back on ?
   setbuf(stdout,1);   ??

   How many characters would you set buffering too ?

  What is really throwing me off, is the example that I showed you that works,
 using the DEFINE's , only works sometimes. I can turn the mouse pointer on and
off just fine using that form, but if I add the move pointer routine the on off
 function doesn't work anymore.

  It shouldn't have any effect, because I first shut the pointer off, while
doing one function, when done, I turn the pointer back on. Then later I do the
mouse pointer move stuff. So how can just adding the move pointer routine cause
the on/off codes not to work?
 This is driving me nuts....

larry

#: 17580 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    28-Feb-93  14:13:49
Sb: get_fname() ?
Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
To: all

   Am I missing something, (probably), does GET_FNAME in the C library for the
MM/1, return a path list ?
   I would like to use this function but while it has the ability to move
through directories, when a selection is made, it only returns the file name of
the selection. How do you use this to load the selected file if not in the
default directory ?
   Is there some way to keep track of the path list as you move through the
directories and then add this to the filename?

????? larry

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