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#: 14158 S7/Telecommunications
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02-Feb-92 16:51:02
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Sb: #14149-#OSK sterm bug
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Fm: Timothy J. Martin 71541,3611
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To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 (X)
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Thanks. I assume getopt is in fact a function, that I can find somewhere. I
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see the OS9 clib.l stuff in LIB 3, where is OSK equivalent, or should I work up
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the sources from LIB 3?
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 14182 S7/Telecommunications
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03-Feb-92 21:44:17
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Sb: #14158-OSK sterm bug
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: Timothy J. Martin 71541,3611 (X)
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Um, that is my OS9 clib.l but I haven't ever posted the OSK version. Getopt is
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readily availible *if* you have the right connections. I can mail both if you
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like. - Carl
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#: 14159 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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02-Feb-92 17:04:48
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Sb: #14151-BASIC's INKEY
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Fm: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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To: Bob Palmer 74646,2156
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The way INKEY works (at least on the MM/1's version of BASIC) is that it
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returns a value if there is something in the keyboard buffer. You then have to
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use GET to find out what it is.
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Does this help any? It's completely different from BASIC-09. You have to do
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something like this:
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a=inkey(#<path>) if a then
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get response; endif
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Hope this helps.
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--Colin
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#: 14167 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 00:15:16
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Sb: #14151-BASIC's INKEY
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Bob Palmer 74646,2156
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Hi Bob,
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Normally, INKEY returns the number of characters waiting (using the SS_Ready
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GetStatus call). So you might say something like...
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DIM k:STRING[1]
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IF INKEY(#0) <> 0 THEN
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GET #0,k
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ENDIF
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But the stock TC70 video driver doesn't support SS_Ready (weird! but should be
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easy for them to fix), so you get the error 208 (unimplemented stat call)
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instead. There's no easy way around that without using a second process to sit
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and read the keyboard for you.
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However, if your desired program just needs to get one key at a time, and
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doesn't mind waiting for it (instead of actually polling for a key), then you
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can just:
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DIM k:STRING[1]
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GET #0,k
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And/or you could set up a signal (SS_SSig) to let you know when a key is hit. I
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hope one of these ideas will do what you need, until you get another driver
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setup. best - kevin
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#: 14161 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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02-Feb-92 21:33:37
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Sb: #Font Project
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: All
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Dear Friends:
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As some of you may know, I have long been hoping that someone would write an
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OS9 version of MAX-10. After an absence of several months, the project is on
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again. At the present time I have a large collection of PD fonts which I have
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gotten from various sources. Some are for First Publisher, some VGA screen
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fonts, some are from a Bit-Mapped Fonts package. I am currently working on a
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program which will allow me to display these fonts on a graphics screen.
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I saw a program in the Feb. '90 issue of PCM (Rainbow's sister magazine) by
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Bill Barden (pgs 147ff) which would do just this. It is written in BASIC and I
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am converting it to OS9. The program opens a font file as a random fiule and
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then reads in 100 bytes at a time. To do so it uses the following instructions:
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OPEN #path, FILENAME$ AS #1 LEN=100
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FIELD #1, 100 AS B$
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I cannot get this to work under OS9. Can anyone help with these lines. Or
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perhaps you know of a Basic09 file reader program already uploaded, with
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source, that implements this sort of thing. Finally, does anyone know where I
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might be able to get information on the file formats that First Publisher uses?
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Any help in these matters will be deeply appreciated.
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With all good wishes,
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Br. Jeremy, CSJW
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#: 14162 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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02-Feb-92 23:04:03
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Sb: #14161-#Font Project
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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The approximate BASIC09 equivalent would be something like
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OPEN #path,filename
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GET #path,buf
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where you've previously declared
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DIM buf:string[100]
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so that the GET statement will get 100 bytes.
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#: 14163 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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02-Feb-92 23:36:58
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Sb: #14162-Font Project
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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Thank you Jim. I will try to finish the code in the next few days and post it.
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With all best wishes, Br. Jeremy, CSJW
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#: 14170 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 13:21:02
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Sb: #14146-New to OS9,Need Power
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Fm: Timothy J. Martin 71541,3611
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To: Bud Hamblen 72466,256
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Yes, mshell does support several varieties of prompts, including current data
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directory, date, time, user, id, shell number, directory stack level
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..
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#: 14177 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 19:55:33
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Sb: #14136-#New to OS9,Need Power
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Fm: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565
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To: JAMES LONG 70043,2203
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Windsor Systems (and Delmar as well) sells a group of utilities called the "Pan
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Utilities" that have most of the things that you are looking for like 'tree,'
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'whereis,' and 'filefind' (last two are really the same program), and a bunch
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of other useful utilities. A big plus is that you get the C SOURCE as well so
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you can fix things that are broke or that you don't like. I you get these, make
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sure that you get the version that has the 'fixes from JBM' as we fixed some
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problem/bugs/annoyances. I send in the changed source but have no idea if
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they're distributing our fixes.
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I don't have their phone number handy here at home, email me if you're
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interested and I'll get it to you later. -J
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#: 14193 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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04-Feb-92 13:37:19
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Sb: #14177-New to OS9,Need Power
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Fm: Timothy J. Martin 71541,3611
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To: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565 (X)
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As an aside ... much of the public domain software I've tried (half?) produces
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bus trap errors on memory managed (protected) machines, due to unitialized
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pointers or whatever. The version of "whereis" that I have is an example.
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#: 14172 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 16:53:13
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Sb: #14155-#MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Where did you get your memory? Did you find a good deal? I haven't even started
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to check into that yet.
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Bill
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#: 14179 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 21:15:25
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Sb: #14172-MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill,
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I picked Hard Drive International for the memory. Lemme grab the sheet ...
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ME 1x8 - 80 1MB SIMM module 80 ns $39.00 each (they actually shipped 70
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ns), and $10 for shipping via FE. At $88 total, I figure I'm still ahead.
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Tried to get a Quantum 105 meg drive, but they are back ordered 'till April.
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Second choice was a Maxtor .... but also out of stock. Finally settled on a
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Connor CP30100 120 meg 19 ms 3.5 1" drive for $369 from Data Storage MArketing,
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Inc. (They have the yellow ad around page 35 in Shopper every month.).
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The Focus Keyboard I bought didn't work. Thought it was DOA, but works fine in
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the XT and AT's at the office, so I'm guessing that it's another one that isn't
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compatable with the MM/1. (Northgate's cause problems as well.) I have a
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repacement Chicony due in. Hope I do better with that.
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Steve
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#: 14178 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 20:07:06
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Sb: #14155-#MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve, it sure was worth the wait. My Quantum 105 hasn't arrived yet but the
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Seagate I have connected is pretty fast. I don't think it's quite fast enough
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initializing because I sometimes don't get a successful boot. The problem is
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most noticable with the newest drivers using rbvccs. Using the rbsccs driver
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that Paul sent me I get more consistent boots. I'm happy with the machine and
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have been playing with it quite a bit. Hopefully the new hard drive will solve
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the occasional boot problem. By the way, the rb33c93a on my I/O board has mask
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#8 and I've told Paul about that. Ernie.
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#: 14181 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 21:42:13
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Sb: #14178-#MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117 (X)
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Yeah .... I had wanted the Quantum, but seems I waited too long. Word from
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several sources I tried said that Quantum is sending everything they have to
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Apple leaving them out in the cold. They have no choice but to recommend other
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manufacturers. I opted for a 120 meg Connor. Mark tells me to expect no
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problems with that pick.
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I sure wish IMS would have a list of 'known to (not) work) hardware. Sure would
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save on the telephone calls to Paul's answering machine!
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If folks want to leave a note here to me letting us know what success and/or
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failures they've had, I'd be happy to compile a file.
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Steve
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#: 14203 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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05-Feb-92 18:31:12
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Sb: #14181-#MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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I talked to Paul late last week and he said he had received some hard drives. I
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believe he said some of them were Quantums. He did say that most of the
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suppliers he had called had Quantums on backorder because Apple was buying all
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they could. I hope he got one for me.
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Ernie.
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#: 14206 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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05-Feb-92 21:11:27
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Sb: #14203-#MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117 (X)
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I opted to piece my system together myself, Ernie. Nothing against Paul and
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crew ... but I like doing my own sourcing of equipment. Looks like it paid off
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too!
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The new keyboard arrived today and works just dandy. It's a Chicony KB5191.
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Nothing special .... I don't know if I'd want to type my novel on it, but for
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$28 bucks, I can't gripe.
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If you're interested, I picked it up from an outfit out of the Shopper ...
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Ralin Wholesalers, Inc.
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I'm not planning on doing much with the box until the I/O board arrives, but
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I'll keep you posted.
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Steve
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#: 14212 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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06-Feb-92 18:13:05
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Sb: #14206-MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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I'm using a Chicony KB5161 I got several years ago to use with the Puppo
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interface on the CoCo. I have a Northgate OmniKey Ultra I'd love to use on
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thM/1 but it won't work. I haven't tried the fix to get it to functionbecause I
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have the Chicony. I've been reading the messages on Delphi about the new
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drivers. I tried to format a disk using the newest drivers with sct=33 and
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t0s=33. Got error 247. Changing to sct=31 and t0s=31 got a successful format.
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Using the older rbsccs sct and t0s of 33 works fine. Guess I'll leave Mark a
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message about that. Ernie.
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#: 14200 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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05-Feb-92 06:18:40
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Sb: #14178-#MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117 (X)
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>I don't think it's quite fast enough initializing because sometimes I
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>don't get a successful boot. The problem is
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Use MODED to change the "coldstart retry count" to a higher number, maybe 50,
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and you should have no more problems. Don't use the driver you got from Paul,
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use the one in the update.
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If you have a mask number 8 on the SCSI controller and it actually works, you
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are a lucky camper.
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Mark
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#: 14204 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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05-Feb-92 18:40:16
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Sb: #14200-MM/1 I/O Board
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)
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I've changed the coldstart retry count several times now. It is now at 150 and
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the machine boots from cold start every time now. Still won't boot from a RESET
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reliably though. The SCSI chip has the following markings on it:
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WD33C93A
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00-08 9022
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069019200102
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PROTO
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I figure the date code is 9022 and the mask is #8. Does the PROTO mean it's
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a prototype? Doesn't matter as long as it works. By the way, I asked Paul
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for the demo you were running in Atlanta. He said he'd put it on my hard drive
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before he shipped it.
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Ernie.
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#: 14174 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 19:55:02
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Sb: #14115-Mshell Discount?
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Fm: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565
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To: Timothy J. Martin 71541,3611 (X)
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I can see users wanting a 'basic' shell for use in embedded applications where
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you don't need or want a 'full featured' shell and since OSK is targeted
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towards this marketplace.... Perhaps include BOTH shells, one for interactive
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development and one for imbedding in the final (probably ROMed) system.
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-J
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#: 14198 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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05-Feb-92 01:21:53
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Sb: #14138-Mshell Discount?
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754
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( I don't remember if I poster this or not. If so, sorry for the duplication )
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Jim,
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The C Source Debugger is much more and much different than a Lint. From what I
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understand it allows you to run you compiled C program much like debug, but
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loads in you actual C source too. You then can step thru it, set break points,
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etc. like debug. The benifit is that you get to see which line of C your are
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executing. I can see a program like that comming in real handy to debug my
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source.
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Lint, on the other hand, is available from Gimpel Software for $400 to $500 in
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what they call 'shrouded' C source. To get Gimpel's number look in DDJ or the
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C user's journal. If you want more info on Generic-Lint, lemme know.
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Mike
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#: 14176 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 19:55:17
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Sb: #14117-Mshell Discount?
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Fm: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565
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To: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754 (X)
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I doubt that it will happen either but I doesn't hurt (much) to make the
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suggestion.
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I wonder how many of MW's industrial customers are even on Compuserve or Delphi
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or are even aware that they exist?
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-J
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#: 14175 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 19:55:10
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Sb: #14137-#Mshell Discount?
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Fm: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565
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To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 (X)
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Please let us know when it is available with support. I don't have time right
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now to risk on something that might not work exactly right! <smile>
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-J
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#: 14183 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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03-Feb-92 21:47:25
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Sb: #14175-Mshell Discount?
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565 (X)
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Have you tried it at all? I run it all the time. Haven't used shell in
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perhaps a year. But there were a couple little things - tmode in a script
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didn't turn pause off, the first line after a '#' in a script gets eaten, etc.
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But actually real solid. Anyway, I just compiled it for the first time and it
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runs but those things aren't fixed. Over the next week or so I will try to
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track them down and then put a version up here for all to wail upon. Then I
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will fix the bugs found there, and so on. - Carl
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#: 14186 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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03-Feb-92 23:04:18
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Sb: #Multivue
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Fm: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762
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To: All
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Well, I finally decided to play with Multivue a bit and put it on a boot disk
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along with Shell+ and a bunch of utilities. (Yes, I do have Gshell+ too.) I
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know it's been a while and some of this stuff will be really old hat, but I see
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that MV changes the default palette colors that are used when I open a window.
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This plays a bit of heck with some of my other window operation.
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So, the first question is, can I change these defaults back again after leaving
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MV and going back to a normal shell?
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And, while typing this message, I also see that MV changes the keyboard repeat
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and delay on a system wide basis that also sticks after it is gone. Can I put
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these back without rebooting? Or, better yet, can I change them without MV.
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Finally, does MV pull any nasty tricks to change palette and keyboard
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constants, or are these legal system calls?
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#: 14199 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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05-Feb-92 01:22:35
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Sb: #14186-Multivue
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762 (X)
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You can set all that stuff by selecting the Control option on the Tandy menu.
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Then write the default back to the /DD/SYS/env.file by making the changes
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permanent.
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Yes, MV set's all those things legally. Thru a I$SetStt call. I believe it's
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an _ss_gip() funtcion in the cgfx.l or SS_Gip in the level 2 manual.
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- Mike -
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#: 14188 S3/Languages
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04-Feb-92 03:21:19
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Sb: #14121-#Help
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Fm: George Hendrickson 71071,2003
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Welp, here's my Compiler disk CMDS directory:
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cc1 c.prep c.pass1 c.pass2 c.opt c.asm c.link copy
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del dir echo list
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Here's the Library disk they gave me:
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LIB directory
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clib.l cstart.r
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DEFS directory
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ctype.h direct.h errno.h modes.h module.h os9.h os9defs.a setjmp.h
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sgstat.h signal.h stdio.h time.h
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SOURCES directory
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SYS line.c prof.c rdump.c
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SOURCES/SYS directory
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abort.a access.a cfinish.a change.a comp.sys cstart.a
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dir.a id.a intercept.a io.a make.sys mem.a misc.a
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mod.a process.a profdummy.a signal.a stat.a syscall.a
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syscommon.a tidyup.a time.a
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That's what they gave me. They said they couldn't get the books for it. Can you
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tell me what I have? Is there a C editor around somewhere or do I just use the
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ol' wordprocessor?
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#: 14190 S3/Languages
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04-Feb-92 08:36:07
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Sb: #14188-Help
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: George Hendrickson 71071,2003
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George -
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It looks complete to me. There is no C editor... You just use whatever text
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editor you're comfy with. I used to use Dynastar.
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In addition to there being replacement libraries, there's also a replacement
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'CC' command here. That may help some with the documentation. Also, if you have
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a RAMDISK set up, the new CC will use it for a scratch area, and that will make
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compiles a LOT quicker.
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Pete
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#: 14189 S9/Utilities
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04-Feb-92 04:12:36
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Sb: #PAK utility
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Fm: George Hendrickson 71071,2003
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To: all
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Can anyone tell me if the author of the PAK utility, G.B. Janssen, is still
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around? I found an annoying bug in PAK I think....
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 14191 S9/Utilities
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04-Feb-92 08:41:19
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Sb: #14189-PAK utility
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: George Hendrickson 71071,2003
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George -
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Haven't seen him in a bit. By and large, AR is still the flavor of choice.
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Pete
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#: 14194 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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04-Feb-92 14:46:57
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Sb: OSK bus traps
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Fm: Timothy J. Martin 71541,3611
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To: 72176,3565 (X)
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I felt guilty about the last remark on bus trap errors. I should put up or
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shutup so to speak. I find the problem in line 145 of my version of whereis.c,
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which reads as follows:
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if( s = index( s, '"' ) ) *s = '\0';
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It should be changed to:
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if( s = index( as, '"' ) ) *s = '\0';
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The value of "s" gets set to zero two lines earlier by an unsuccessful index
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function. The memory management objects to the access to address 0 in line
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145, and causes a bus trap error. Nicely enough, the value of "s" was saved
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earlier in "as", for proper use later, and can also be used here in line 145,
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thus "s" is changed to "as" in line 145.
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The microware source level debugger (srcdbg) helps greatly in tracking these
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problems, and running programs under memory management with srcdbg sure makes
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these problems easier to find.
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#: 14195 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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04-Feb-92 20:08:44
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Sb: #printers and mm/1's
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Fm: Ken Gideon 72270,664
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To: anyone
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HELP, I have a nice new Epson LQ-570 printer hooked up to my MM/1, all I can
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get it to do is print one character of garbage, the the printing process goes
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to sleep, never to awaken again.... its a hell of a time to take a NAP!?!?! any
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deep thoughts? btw. I've tried using both the stock sc68230 driver, Bob van der
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Poel's sc68230 driver, both drivers that came in the MM1update.ar pack, (altho
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I haven't tried using more that 1 driver at a time yet... I'll do that next)..
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oh, and FWIW. yes, I used the right /p for any given driver... (well most of
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the time anyway)... any help would be, um, helpful... (I have to have a
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report typed (and printed) by Fri.)
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btw. for anyone who is thinking about buying a printer, the Epson LQ-570 sure
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is neat, does a bunch of fonts, has scalable fonts, 24 pin 360x360 dpi, 8k
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buffer, makes coffee, etc.. if only it would PRINT! well I sapose ya cant have
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everything, but who ever heard of a printer that wont print? whats the point?
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Ken Gideon
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There are 2 Replies.
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#: 14201 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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05-Feb-92 06:18:44
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Sb: #14195-#printers and mm/1's
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: Ken Gideon 72270,664 (X)
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Ken,
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How long a cable are you using? Anything more than about 6 or 8 feet,
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depending upon the printer, does not work very well or at all on the MM/1
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printer ports. Try a shorter cable and see what it does.
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Mark
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 14214 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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06-Feb-92 19:32:54
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Sb: #14201-printers and mm/1's
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Fm: Ken Gideon 72270,664
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To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)
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hey, that could be it, I'm using a 10' cable at the moment, I'll try a 6' foot
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cable... but gee, it cant be that simple....nothing ever is... Ken
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#: 14202 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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05-Feb-92 08:58:35
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Sb: #14195-printers and mm/1's
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Ken Gideon 72270,664 (X)
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Ken -
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Have you tried dragging it to a friend's house and hanging it off of a PC
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clone? That might clear or finger the printer.
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Pete
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#: 14196 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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04-Feb-92 23:40:53
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Sb: #Select
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: Kevin Darling, 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin,
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Is there a way to select the window a program is going to run in? You helped me
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out some time ago to do this on the coco; but now I want to do the same thing
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on the MM/1. I want to have a line like:
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(display 1b 21 ; /dd/games/mygame) <>>>/w
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so that the program starts in a new window and that window is displayed. Also,
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it'd be nice to return to the calling window when 'mygame' is finished.
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Thanks
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 14210 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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06-Feb-92 05:33:43
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Sb: #14196-Select
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)
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Hi Bob,
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Welllll :-), that's interesting. From a program, it's easy to do the 1B21
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select, as the system will store away its input preference. Doing it from a
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command line turns out to be slightly more difficult...
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Partly because I check only for standard output's preference (I just changed
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this, thanks for the thought!), and that was because the OSK shell lacks the
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6809 version's "</1" type of redirection (for running from scripts).
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Anyway, the upshot is that you'll need to send the Select to stderr to make it
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work right from shell lines in current versions. Easy enough: pack a new Basic
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command:
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procedure winsel
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print #2,chr$($1b)+chr$($21);
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end
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Then you _should_ be able to do a "(cls;winsel;program) <>>>/w" and have it pop
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to that window. The next line in a script file could be to winsel the original
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window.. executed when the program dies, of course.
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Let me know what happens. Thanks!! - kevin
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#: 14197 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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05-Feb-92 00:36:38
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Sb: #Fonts part2
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: All
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Dear Friends:
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I am currently converting a program from BASIC to BASIC09. The Basic program
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contains the line
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C=INSTR(A$,CHR$(27)+")s")
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A$ is 100 bytes of a font file. CHR$(27) or $1B is a control/escape code. ANd
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")s" does something or other. (How's that for accurate terminology?)
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I know that under COCO BASIC, the command would search a string, and then
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return the location of the target string in a search string. For example:
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INSTR(position,search-string,target)
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I cannot find an exact command for INSTR under BASIC09. Pg 11-164 of the Level
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II guide gives an example of a command called SUBSTR. I am not sure if this
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will do what I need.
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Any suggestions?
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With all best wishes,
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Br. Jeremy, CSJW
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#: 14205 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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05-Feb-92 19:02:27
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Sb: #14197-Fonts part2
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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Brother Jeremy,
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As you've probably figured out by now, yep, SUBSTR does what you want. So I
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guess the rough equivalent to search for "thisword" in A$ is:
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BASIC: C = INSTR(A$,"thisword")
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BASIC09: C = SUBSTR("thisword",A$)
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Now, if you have to start the search at a certain position, then you can use
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MID$ to get there, but have to add back the starting offset if found:
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STARTPOS = 5
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BASIC: C = INSTR(STARTPOS,A$,"thisword")
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BASIC09: C = SUBSTR("thisword",MID$(A$,STARTPOS,100))
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IF C<>0 THEN C=C+STARTPOS-1 \ ENDIF
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I believe these are equivalent... but test to be sure. BTW, the "100" was
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arbitrarily picked as the max size of any string. You may (or may not) need to
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change that. Depends on how large A$ can be. If the string is smaller, it'll
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just ignore the extra amount, and all will be okay.
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best - kevin
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#: 14207 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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05-Feb-92 21:51:39
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Sb: MM/1 Update Module Fix
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: All
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To all MM/1 owners with the module update:
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Apparently a mistake was made in making the update archive and the wrong
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descriptors were included. A new set of descriptors are being made up now, but
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until then you should be able to get your new drivers working by changing one
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vale using the DMODE utility supplied in the archive.
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Use DMODE to change the rate byte to $30 for any high density disk except the
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hpcx IBM disk descriptors and $10 for all double (or low) density disks. This
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should correct the problem. Let me know if you still hahve trouble,
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Mark
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#: 14208 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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06-Feb-92 00:33:04
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Sb: #STERM AR'ing
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Fm: MARK LITTLE 70761,3147
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To: SYSOP (X)
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I have downloaded STERM and extracted it twice, I have extracted other fi
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without problems, and am unable to use STERM. I keep getting ERROR 234 Module
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Not Found. After many tries, INDENT returns a bad module header. Am I doing
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something wrong here? Or do I need something else? Thanks, Mark
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 14215 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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06-Feb-92 21:03:08
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Sb: #14208-STERM AR'ing
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: MARK LITTLE 70761,3147
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Mark,
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The module not found error is probably because Sterm is looking for the /t2
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module. If you don't have one in your bootfile, and the ACIAPAK driver that
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goes with it, you won't be able to run Sterm. Look for that descriptor and
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driver and see if including them doesn't help.
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BTW: Which version of Sterm did you get? Ver. 1.5.1?? Which module are you
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giving to Sterm on the command line? Should be 'sterm -l /tx' where 'x' is the
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number of your serial port.
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Mark
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#: 14213 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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06-Feb-92 18:18:21
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Sb: MM/1 Update Module Fix
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)
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Mark,
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I was going to leave you a message about the problem I was having with the
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newest drivers. However, I just read msg. 14207 so I'll make the needed changes
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with dmode. Thanks for the support.
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Ernie.
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