textfiles/messages/ALANWESTON/1996/CIS05_12.txt

#: 21411 S1/General Interest
    21-Apr-96  11:21:02
Sb: #21410-#ddx
Fm: tom farrow 72701,543
To: David Breeding 72330,2051 (X)

ddx is a program by pagan which is like a roladex and runs with termcap. my
machine don't like termcap entries most of  { the time it w {orks ok, but
othertimes it don't. { help!!!! {

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#: 21416 S1/General Interest
    28-Apr-96  11:17:03
Sb: #21411-ddx
Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051
To: tom farrow 72701,543 (X)

 > ddx is a program by pagan which is like a roladex and runs with termcap.

OK, I think I've seen that program advertised.

 > my machine don't like termcap entries most of  { the time it w {orks ok,
 > but othertimes it don't. { help!!!! {

Do you have good termcap entries?  Are you running from /term or G-Windows?

I've found that under G-Windows, a few programs, termcaps or terminfo's, one,
don't produce linefeeds but do under /term.  Perhaps it is something like this?


                         -- David Breeding --
   CIS 72330,2051  |  Delphi DBREEDING  |  dbree@duo-county.com

        Composed with InfoXpress/OSK Vr. 1.02 & VED Vr. 2.4.0

#: 21414 S1/General Interest
    24-Apr-96  21:02:49
Sb: OS9205.ZIP R/W OS9 on PC
Fm: John Murphy 73077,2305
To: ALL

 I've uploaded OS9205.ZIP to the following
 services and BBS's.

 Compuserve, OS-9 forum, lib 9
 Delphi, OS-9 sig, New Arrivals
 MECCO, 1-613-723-6537, area 3
 Ocean Beach, 1-619-224-4878, OSK Utilities
 ftp://os9archive.rtsi.com/OS9/incoming/coco

 OS9205.ZIP
 OS9.EXE v2.05
 Read / Write COCO OS-9 floppies on a PC.
 Requires a PC and DOS. Includes source.
 Author: Carey Bloodworth
 U/L: John Murphy jmurphy@delphi.com 73077.2305@compuserve.com



#: 21417 S1/General Interest
    07-May-96  12:34:06
Sb: #Windows 95 praise?
Fm: Rogelio Perea 72056,1204
To: ALL

I recently had a long chat with a close friend about operating systems.  He has
always been a MSDOS junkie, even had the courage to have bought a PC Jr when it
became available. Well, he started to talk about Windows 95 wonders:

        True multitasking environment
        Multi-thread operations
        and so on...

I remembered that about 5 or 6 years ago we had a similar conversation when he
was installing a computer network in the radio stations where I work at. I
mentioned OS9 could do the same work he was projecting and a lot cheaper and
with less hassle. He was shocked! (more of a rage attack I'd say). I recall he
told me: "Why would we want to multitask? I can't even think in a multi-task
way, how would we program?". Well, that ended there.

This time though, while he was praising W95, he commented something about
multi-threading. I said that OS9 also worked by establishing separate processes
and that these could work on their own and call other processes.... He told me,
"Well, then it should be like W95. Unix works that way too". I had to restrain
myself into taking him into the room where my CoCo 3 is installed, after all, I
want to ease the shock on him after I show him what I can do with an investment
of less than $500.00.  He had to soup up his 486DX50 memory and HD for W95....
lost love for a few bucks in the process <G> ;-)

Please comment on this!

Rogelio Perea  

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#: 21418 S1/General Interest
    08-May-96  00:20:39
Sb: #21417-Windows 95 praise?
Fm: Jochen Terasa 100421,2472
To: Rogelio Perea 72056,1204

Rogelio,

 >>  "Why would we want to multitask? I can't even think in a multi-task way,
how would we program?" <<

 Each Software has many tasks in the sense of "many things to do". So if we
can't think in a multitask way, why not program one task after another?

 I think the main difference  between OS like OS-9 and others like WIN95 are
t5heir target groups. With the first one you can efficiently solve the problem,
what a program has to do. So you have the machine in the foreground. With the
second one you can efficiently solve the problems that an online user has with
computers. From this point of view there is no machine anymore, but only a user
that is frightend of it<g>



  -Joachim Terasa


#: 21419 S1/General Interest
    10-May-96  04:05:25
Sb: Intersolv PVCS & FasTrak
Fm: Christian Daschill 100112,277
To: All

It used to be that Microware and Intersolv supported each other, but for
"political reasons", I heard, no more. Since I have to used both products, I
wonder if anybody has edited the vcscap file of FasTrak to include PVCS. It
doesn't look like it is all that hard to do, but I'd like to save myself the
trouble if it has been done before...

#: 21412 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
    23-Apr-96  09:43:02
Sb: Error #000:175
Fm: Les Wilkinson 100350,262
To: All

Can anyone tell me the source of this error message, please?

It's not in my manual, which goes up to 174!

I've replaced the SCSI drive in my system (running OS9 V2.4) with a new larger
one (now 1GByte), and every time I try to access /fh0 to format it, or /h0 to
access it normally I get 'Error 175'.

I've spent all week trying various combinations and experimenting, and got
nowhere. Both drive and interface are O.K. - it's a compatibility problem.
Full details if anyone can shed any light.

Incidentally, has anyone ever got satisfactory technical support out or
Microware U.K?

Les Wilkinson.