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#: 21411 S1/General Interest
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21-Apr-96 11:21:02
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Sb: #21410-#ddx
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Fm: tom farrow 72701,543
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To: David Breeding 72330,2051 (X)
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ddx is a program by pagan which is like a roladex and runs with termcap. my
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machine don't like termcap entries most of { the time it w {orks ok, but
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othertimes it don't. { help!!!! {
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 21416 S1/General Interest
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28-Apr-96 11:17:03
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Sb: #21411-ddx
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Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051
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To: tom farrow 72701,543 (X)
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> ddx is a program by pagan which is like a roladex and runs with termcap.
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OK, I think I've seen that program advertised.
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> my machine don't like termcap entries most of { the time it w {orks ok,
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> but othertimes it don't. { help!!!! {
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Do you have good termcap entries? Are you running from /term or G-Windows?
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I've found that under G-Windows, a few programs, termcaps or terminfo's, one,
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don't produce linefeeds but do under /term. Perhaps it is something like this?
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-- David Breeding --
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CIS 72330,2051 | Delphi DBREEDING | dbree@duo-county.com
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Composed with InfoXpress/OSK Vr. 1.02 & VED Vr. 2.4.0
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#: 21414 S1/General Interest
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24-Apr-96 21:02:49
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Sb: OS9205.ZIP R/W OS9 on PC
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Fm: John Murphy 73077,2305
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To: ALL
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I've uploaded OS9205.ZIP to the following
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services and BBS's.
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Compuserve, OS-9 forum, lib 9
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Delphi, OS-9 sig, New Arrivals
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MECCO, 1-613-723-6537, area 3
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Ocean Beach, 1-619-224-4878, OSK Utilities
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ftp://os9archive.rtsi.com/OS9/incoming/coco
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OS9205.ZIP
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OS9.EXE v2.05
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Read / Write COCO OS-9 floppies on a PC.
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Requires a PC and DOS. Includes source.
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Author: Carey Bloodworth
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U/L: John Murphy jmurphy@delphi.com 73077.2305@compuserve.com
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#: 21417 S1/General Interest
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07-May-96 12:34:06
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Sb: #Windows 95 praise?
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Fm: Rogelio Perea 72056,1204
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To: ALL
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I recently had a long chat with a close friend about operating systems. He has
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always been a MSDOS junkie, even had the courage to have bought a PC Jr when it
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became available. Well, he started to talk about Windows 95 wonders:
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True multitasking environment
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Multi-thread operations
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and so on...
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I remembered that about 5 or 6 years ago we had a similar conversation when he
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was installing a computer network in the radio stations where I work at. I
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mentioned OS9 could do the same work he was projecting and a lot cheaper and
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with less hassle. He was shocked! (more of a rage attack I'd say). I recall he
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told me: "Why would we want to multitask? I can't even think in a multi-task
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way, how would we program?". Well, that ended there.
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This time though, while he was praising W95, he commented something about
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multi-threading. I said that OS9 also worked by establishing separate processes
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and that these could work on their own and call other processes.... He told me,
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"Well, then it should be like W95. Unix works that way too". I had to restrain
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myself into taking him into the room where my CoCo 3 is installed, after all, I
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want to ease the shock on him after I show him what I can do with an investment
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of less than $500.00. He had to soup up his 486DX50 memory and HD for W95....
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lost love for a few bucks in the process <G> ;-)
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Please comment on this!
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Rogelio Perea
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 21418 S1/General Interest
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08-May-96 00:20:39
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Sb: #21417-Windows 95 praise?
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Fm: Jochen Terasa 100421,2472
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To: Rogelio Perea 72056,1204
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Rogelio,
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>> "Why would we want to multitask? I can't even think in a multi-task way,
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how would we program?" <<
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Each Software has many tasks in the sense of "many things to do". So if we
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can't think in a multitask way, why not program one task after another?
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I think the main difference between OS like OS-9 and others like WIN95 are
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t5heir target groups. With the first one you can efficiently solve the problem,
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what a program has to do. So you have the machine in the foreground. With the
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second one you can efficiently solve the problems that an online user has with
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computers. From this point of view there is no machine anymore, but only a user
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that is frightend of it<g>
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-Joachim Terasa
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#: 21419 S1/General Interest
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10-May-96 04:05:25
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Sb: Intersolv PVCS & FasTrak
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Fm: Christian Daschill 100112,277
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To: All
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It used to be that Microware and Intersolv supported each other, but for
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"political reasons", I heard, no more. Since I have to used both products, I
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wonder if anybody has edited the vcscap file of FasTrak to include PVCS. It
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doesn't look like it is all that hard to do, but I'd like to save myself the
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trouble if it has been done before...
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#: 21412 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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23-Apr-96 09:43:02
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Sb: Error #000:175
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Fm: Les Wilkinson 100350,262
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To: All
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Can anyone tell me the source of this error message, please?
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It's not in my manual, which goes up to 174!
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I've replaced the SCSI drive in my system (running OS9 V2.4) with a new larger
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one (now 1GByte), and every time I try to access /fh0 to format it, or /h0 to
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access it normally I get 'Error 175'.
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I've spent all week trying various combinations and experimenting, and got
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nowhere. Both drive and interface are O.K. - it's a compatibility problem.
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Full details if anyone can shed any light.
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Incidentally, has anyone ever got satisfactory technical support out or
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Microware U.K?
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Les Wilkinson.
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