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#: 20480 S1/General Interest
    19-Oct-94  21:55:23
Sb: #20479-#Any suggestions?
Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Surely there is a LEN function in BASIC09?!?!?



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  Zack C Sessions

     If you're not the "lead dog", the scenery never changes.


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#: 20481 S1/General Interest
    20-Oct-94  07:06:47
Sb: #20480-#Any suggestions?
Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
To: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 (X)

Zack,

Yes, but it doesn't return the defined length of the variable, just the current
length. And it only works on strings, but then depending on how this is being
used, it should be fairly obvious what the size of non string variables is.

-Bill-

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#: 20484 S1/General Interest
    20-Oct-94  21:17:52
Sb: #20481-#Any suggestions?
Fm: Dick Watson 71320,2340
To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)

Finding the DIM'd length was exactly my concern.  Few things create a flake
problem faster than OCCASIONALLY overruning a string variables assigned
length...

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#: 20486 S1/General Interest
    22-Oct-94  12:34:49
Sb: #20484-Any suggestions?
Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051
To: Dick Watson 71320,2340

 > Finding the DIM'd length was exactly my concern.  Few things create a
 > flake problem faster than OCCASIONALLY overruning a string variables
 > assigned length...

Perhaps you could use the SIZE(str) function.  This returns the DIM'ed size of
the string you are querying.



                   -- David Breeding --
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#: 20482 S1/General Interest
    20-Oct-94  07:06:55
Sb: #20479-Any suggestions?
Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Bob,

You are correct, but the only examples I've ever seen are in the C manual! Some
good examples, though, of how to use C subroutines with Basci09.  And since the
Basci09 calling convention is a little odd, interfacing with C requires some
#asm directives to set things up correctly, providing some clues on how to
interface with asm directly.

-Bill-

#: 20483 S1/General Interest
    20-Oct-94  21:15:37
Sb: #20479-Any suggestions?
Fm: Dick Watson 71320,2340
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203

Thanks.  I'll file this away; my search for manuals has been interrupted by
less important/more urgent fire drills...

D. Watson

#: 20488 S1/General Interest
    22-Oct-94  14:32:00
Sb: 1.2 Meg Teac -- Need hel
Fm: Boisy G. Pitre 74464,3005
To: all

Hi all,

I just purchased a TEAC FD-55GFR 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drive for my
MM/1.  I cannot seem to read CoCo OS-9 formatted disks with the
following dmode parameters:

name=c1
 drv=1 stp=3 typ=$24 dns=$01 cyl=40 sid=2 vfy=1 (off) sct=18 t0s=18
 sas=8 ilv=3 tfm=0 toffs=0 soffs=1 ssize=256 cntl=$0000 trys=0 lun=0
 wpc=0 rwr=0 park=0 lsnoffs=0 totcyls=80 ctrlrid=0 rates=$10
 scsiopt=$0000 maxcount=65535

When I attempt to read, I get an error #247.  The light comes on and
the drive is apparently trying to read the disk.

I recall hearing discussion that some 5.25" drives use a different
spin rate to read hi-density while others use a different data rate.
While I'm not trying to read a hi-density disk in this case, I wonder
if this drive will work as a 1.2 meg floppy?

Does anyone have any experience with this drive on the MM/1?  I would
appreciate any answers.  If I can't use the drive, I'm taking it back.
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#: 20489 S3/Languages
    23-Oct-94  10:19:21
Sb: #20472-GNU C compiler
Fm: Bruno Nilsson 76407,600
To: DTR 100302,3271

Thank you very much.
I will send them a FAX.

Regards
Bruno

#: 20487 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    22-Oct-94  12:35:39
Sb: #20476-Config & os9gen
Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203

 > If you use a vdg TERM to boot to, you need to include VDGInit (If memory
 > serves...).

Right.  VDGInt can run hi-res screens, but no "versie-visa" <G>

 > BTW, if you have managed to use config to create a new boot disk, you are
 > the first person I know to do so. Most people just create a bootlist file
 > and use os9gen....much easier and faster.

And how.  I file 13'ed config pretty quickly..  I guess something like could
have been developed for those who would have been strictly in the "User" class,
but this one lacked a lot.  I simply set up various bootfil various
configurations and kept them on file.. I'd think this was what almost everyone
did.


                   -- David Breeding --
                 CompuServe :  72330,2051
                     Delphi :  DBREEDING

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#: 20485 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    22-Oct-94  01:06:40
Sb: #20477-RLE-VSC
Fm: Eric Crichlow 71051,3516
To: Alan Weston 76234,3500 (X)

Alan,

  > Basically, I'm trying to enable the built in RLE decoding.

    Unfortunately I can't answer your question, but I'm also currently trying
to gain access to the VSC's unsupported features, namely the PIXAC. I've also
been thinking of some things to use the RLE decoding for. If you have any
success at this let me know.

..Eric...

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