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#: 11124 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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20-Jun-91 21:00:02
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Sb: #Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: ALL
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I am running a Tandy coco2 and Deskmate. I have tried several times to download
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files from CIS and have failed on every one. How do I get a download to work, I
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have tried xmodem and the host always times out. I would like to download a
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real terminal program if I could only get it to work. Can anyone help me?
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Tom
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#: 11138 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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21-Jun-91 00:20:47
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Sb: #11124-#Downloads
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Hi Tom - hopefully someone can help you out. Are you using an RS232 pak and
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some kind of modem? Or a modempak? Logging on and everything else goes okay?
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best - kev
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#: 11148 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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21-Jun-91 19:42:48
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Sb: #11138-#Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin,
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I'm using a modem pak, I just added the m1 driver for it about a month ago. I
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did so with the help of the folks here and it works great! I have no trouble
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logging on, reading messages , etc. the only problem I have is downloads.
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Thanks for the reply.
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Tom
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#: 11152 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Jun-91 08:39:51
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Sb: #11148-#Downloads
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Thom ...
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What trouble downloading do you have? If you're using Sterm, it should be a
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snap.
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Steve
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#: 11159 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Jun-91 19:11:21
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Sb: #11152-#Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Here we go again. I am still using Deskmate, I would like to download STERM but
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I can't. I cannot seem to get this program to accept the download. Any Ideas?
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Tom
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#: 11165 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Jun-91 11:24:41
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Sb: #11159-#Downloads
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Thom,
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I can't stand to see you suffer any longer!
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Leave me your address and I'll send you a disk with Sterm. (we haven't done
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this alreay? I have a sense of deja vu).
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Steve
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#: 11170 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Jun-91 18:55:28
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Sb: #11165-#Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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I know the feeling, it does seem like we did this before.
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Thanks for the offer, if you like I'll send you a blank disk to make a copy on.
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My mailing address is:
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Thomas Aubin PO Box 1593 Woonsocket, RI 02895
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Thanks again, I hope someday I can help you out as much as you have helped me.
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Tom
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#: 11174 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Jun-91 07:45:51
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Sb: #11170-#Downloads
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Don't sweat the disk, Thom ... there's plenty in the basement.
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I'll whip something together and get it out in a day or two.
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Steve
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#: 11178 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Jun-91 19:16:29
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Sb: #11174-#Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Thanks
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Look forward to recieving it.
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BTW what do you do for work anyway? Are you some kind of computer expert or is
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this just a hobby. You seem to know your stuff with these things .
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Thanks for helping me out again.
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Tom
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#: 11210 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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27-Jun-91 07:52:47
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Sb: #11178-Downloads
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Thom,
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No expert here ... just a guy that's covered some of the same ground ahead of
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you ...that's all.
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In real life, I work for Datapage Technologies. We're a commercial typesetter
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that produces legal reference, directories and catalogs. We're also very
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heavily involved in producing bar coded labels for harsh environments and
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database manipulation.
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Steve
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#: 11143 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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21-Jun-91 01:07:15
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Sb: #11124-#Downloads
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Sorry Tom, but the original DeskMate doesn't support xmodem as far as I know.
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If it does,you'll get a XModem? yes/no window after selecting download. Without
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XModem, CIS times out since no CTS can be sent if DeskMate doesn't know what's
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going on. If STERM runs under Level 1 I'd be glad to sent a copy, but with
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CoCo3's going for $60, it might be time to upgrade. I even bought a spare
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Level2 for $4.95 just to get another manual! Otherwise, Rickeyterm and
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GregEterm are cheap and work, to boot. Best of luck, -Rick
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#: 11149 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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21-Jun-91 19:47:13
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Sb: #11143-#Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick,
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Thanks for the info, I don't know if sterm will work under level 1 or not.
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Where did you get the level 2 for 4.95? For that matter I haven't seen coco 3's
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for $60.00 either. They are $99.99 here. Where are you finding these bargains?
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Tom
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#: 11151 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Jun-91 07:11:36
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Sb: #11149-#Downloads
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Thomas,
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All the CoCo stuff is SOWG (Sold out when gone) and Tandy has a sale list that
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should have the real low proces on the stuff. Here in Las Vegas, they never
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tell you about the SPIF (sp?) List pricing. YOU have to ask. Maybe you should
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ask your local shack manager "Why can the whole country get CoCo's for XX
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amount and Level II for $4.95, and You're selling it for XXX?"
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Happy shopping!!! <Grin>
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Mike
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PS If you can't get a good deal at your local RS, post a message and someone
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may be able to pick you up what you need and ship
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it to ya.
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#: 11158 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Jun-91 19:08:36
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Sb: #11151-Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)
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Mike,
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Thanks ,I'll check it out. I have a friend that works in a local Radio Shack
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store . I'll see what he has to say.
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Thanks again
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Tom
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#: 11155 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Jun-91 12:30:07
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Sb: #11149-#Downloads
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom,
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I found all of this in the Milwaukee area. There is a wide range, some stores
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are selling all software for $4.95 while others still have some things at full
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price. Been driving everywhere, (probably a dozen stores this week), and then
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buying stuff on the way back home. When the 502 dropped to $60, a few stores
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sold CoCo's for the same price. Guess it depends on how much room and patience
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each individual manager has! Somebody bought most of the remaining CoCos here
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last week, so I'm expecting to see 'em on Home Shopping Network next week. Hope
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ya find an XModem, the libraries here are GREAT! - Rick
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#: 11160 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Jun-91 19:17:18
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Sb: #11155-#Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick,
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I guess the stores in my area are alittle slow. Did you say you saw a FD-502
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for $60.00? They are getting $199.95 for them here.
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I would like to solve my downloading problem so I can take advantage of the
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libraries here. I agree , they are GREA
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GREAT! (oops )
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Thanks for the info.
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Tom
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#: 11180 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Jun-91 20:19:25
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Sb: #11160-#Downloads
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom,
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I'm glad I'm not in Rhode Island. If you ever get the hardware bug I can
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definately recommend a '3 (80 column doesn't [exp.del.]) and windows are even
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better! Hope RI catches up, for your sake!
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Best- Rick
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#: 11197 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Jun-91 21:08:23
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Sb: #11180-Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick
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Me too!!!
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I checked with my local store and they don't have any level 2, and if they did
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it would be priced at the normal price listed in the software catalog. As for
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the coco 3, they still want 99.95 , so I'll wait them out. Maybe I should move
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(ha ha)
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Tom
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#: 11182 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Jun-91 20:31:11
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Sb: #11160-#Downloads
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Down'ed STERM 1.3 on the 19th,after I RTFM on DeskMate3.Also down'ed 1.5 on
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the 20th (surprize update!). If anybody can help me on this one final problem,
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I'd REALLY be thankful, and besides, can finally use DeskMate for a frisbee:
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STERM 1.3 will work ONCE after boot, STERM 1.5 never!
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The error is always 'no MODEM defined' with the one exception above.
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(I'm using sterm /m1 to start both versions)
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Do I need the new TERMCAP thats bundled with 1.5 source? I took a few
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days to reflect/retry and mebbe avoid another Stupid Question, but this
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has me whupped.
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Thanks for all the help- Rick
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#: 11198 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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25-Jun-91 21:14:32
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Sb: #11182-Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick,
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I'm not fimaliar with sterm, I am using Deskmate. However 1 question, do you
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have an m1 driver in your boot file. Check your module directory and see if
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it's there. What are you using for a modem? a modem pak or rs-232 and external
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modem. I could be wrong but if you are using rs-232 and a modem you need to use
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/T2, and a modem pak uses /M1 Hope that helps.
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Tom
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#: 11199 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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26-Jun-91 08:21:13
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Sb: #11182-Downloads
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick,
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I'm not sure what the problem with Sterm 1.3 is, but with 1.5, you must specify
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the modem port on the command line, like: sterm -l /m1
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Bill
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#: 11211 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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27-Jun-91 08:00:34
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Sb: #11182-Downloads
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick,
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Bill has given you the NEW syntax for Sterm 1.5. A quick reference of the
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syntax can be had by typing STERM -?. Mark's added a nmber of command line
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options.
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The termcap in place for 1.3 should be forward compatable with 1.5. Might be a
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few minor entry updates, but nothing major. I wasable to replace my old version
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of sterm with 1.5 by exchanging binaries. Nothing else.
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Steve
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#: 11156 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Jun-91 17:37:01
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Sb: #11124-#Downloads
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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You might look at lib 7 (or maybe 10) for XCOM9. It runs on OS9 Level one and
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it does XMODEM. Of course, its a binary file, and you need XMODEM or CIS-"B" to
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get it. (Catch 22). Do you have an RS-DOS term program that does XMODEM
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(Mikeyterm, Gregeterm, ULterm ) - then you could use one of the RS-DOS to OS9
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transfer utilities? Good luck & keep trying. JohnW
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#: 11161 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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22-Jun-91 19:22:21
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Sb: #11156-#Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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John,
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No, all I have is deskmate and a modem pak. The modem pak will do an xmodem but
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I have no way to put it on a disk. The modem pak without os9 will only access
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cassete. Any way to download the file you mentioned and copy to disk? In other
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words it MUST have line numbers or the computer will give an IO error. If it
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does have line numbers it should work if not I guess it's catch 22 again. Any
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Ideas?
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Thanks
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TOM
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#: 11164 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Jun-91 08:52:09
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Sb: #11161-#Downloads
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Hmmmmm,
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Plan A: I could convert it to an "S-record" ASCII file (see EXBIN and BINEX in
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your OS9 manual) and then EMAIL it to you. It might take you a few tries to
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get a good download with no error correction. This assumes you have the OS9
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Level I operating system (not just the bare boot that comes with Deskmate).
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Plan B: Send me your address - I'll mail you a disk.
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John Wainwright
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#: 11171 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Jun-91 18:57:55
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Sb: #11164-Downloads
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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John,
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Thanks for the offer, I have recieved a similar offer from someone else. I have
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already accepted. Thanks again.
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TOM
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#: 11125 S4/MIDI and Music
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20-Jun-91 21:02:36
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Sb: #11086-#UMUSE3
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Bert Schneider 70244,427 (X)
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Hi. Yes, there is some outift that will really rebiuild your MT32, for a
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pretty stiff price. Also I can buy a ROM upgrade to my Korg SW-8000 (that's
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DW, not SW) that will add lots of features.
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No I don't know the XTGEN2 interface -- just WD-1000A or whatever I got 4 years
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ago for my B&B.
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Yes, if your directory has more than 42 (I think) .UME files, Umuse3 knows it
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can't save that much background, so it opens the window for the file names in
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Non-Save mode. I really should add code to redraw everything when you do
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that.... Meanwhile, try splitting your UME files up by type of music, or synth
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model, or mood, or whatever. Regards, mike k
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#: 11140 S4/MIDI and Music
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21-Jun-91 00:25:53
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Sb: #11125-UMUSE3
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Fm: Bert Schneider 70244,427
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To: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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I'll do that. As soon as I get my hard drive working again. I am so close but
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yet so far. I think I need to work on a select circuit for my CTS* line. I
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think I'll use a flip flop and a bus driver to make one hi-Z while the other
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gets the CTS* line from the CoCo.
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Take care.
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#: 11228 S4/MIDI and Music
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28-Jun-91 15:42:42
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Sb: #11125-UMUSE3
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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Mike,
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What's that DW8000 upgrade you're talking about? And send along what you've got
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on UMUSE, please.
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Paul
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IMS
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#: 11126 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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20-Jun-91 21:32:10
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Sb: #11114-#Help a Monk
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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If I was writing DIM statements, would I use DIM Column:INTEGER to convert a C
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statement such as "int column;"? --Thank you, JEREMY, CSJW
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#: 11139 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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21-Jun-91 00:22:24
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Sb: #11126-Help a Monk
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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Jeremy - yep, DIM variable:INTEGER should work just fine.
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If you can figure out what their intent was, of course, that'd be even a better
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way to see if an integer is the best choice.
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#: 11231 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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28-Jun-91 15:54:49
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Sb: #11106-#Help a Monk
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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There was a rumored version of a Level 2 upgrade that allowed you to use the
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right button just for the purpose of switching windows. Right now,
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the MM/1 does that with the right button.
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CoCo OS-9 will be going strong for at least another two years, I think.
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#: 11253 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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29-Jun-91 21:53:06
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Sb: #11231-Help a Monk
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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I hope that the OS9/COCO community will keep going strong. Many of us cannot
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afford to move to one of the new machines. I realize that the commercial
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programmers have to go where the money is. I also realize that the hobbyist
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will support whatever machine they use the most.
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For example, MAX-10 is the only RS-DOS program I ever use. I just noticed
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COCOPRO listed a NEWSPAPER-09 in this mnonths Rainbow. Does anyone have any
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info on it? I still hope that the OS9 Level 2 upgrade will materialize. I hate
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to keep haunting people about it...but... we need it badly. -Br. Jeremy, CSJW.
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#: 11127 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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20-Jun-91 21:36:03
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Sb: SALE OF COCO STUFF
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Fm: JOERG SATTLER 74016,631
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To: ALL
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Selling my entire inventory of COCO III hardware
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and software. Have the following on hand:
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Two (2) COCO 3 with 512k RAM ea 150.00
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Disto Super controller II w 4 in 1 board. 150.00
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WD 1002 harddisk controller (2 controllers) 125.00
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All necessary cables all hardware included of course
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Eliminator and WD 1002-05 controller 200.00
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Two (2) Tandon 10meg Full hight HD ea 35.00
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Standard J/W floppy controller 25.00
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3.5" 720k drive and two 5.25" 360K drives. ea 55.00
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Zenith data systems green mono monitor. 35.00
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Magnavox 8CM515 color monitor. 150.00
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OS9 level 1 original system 10.00
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OS9 level 2: 25.00
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Basic system, Developers pack, Multi Vue. ea 25.00
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Sculptor Data base system 50.00
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Dynacalc spreadsheet 25.00
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Stylograph Wordprosseing system for COCO3 25.00
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C for OS9 and PASCAL for OS9. ea 10.00
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DESKMATE 3 25.00
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OS9 PROFILE database system. -----
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OS9 Flight simulator II -----
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A bunch of RAINBOW on tape as well as RAINBOW on disk
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All original manuals and the Tandy service manual
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The Rainbow guide for OS9 and the BASIC 09 Tour guide
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A couple of 6809 assembly language books
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All documentation and books for all programs are available
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All prices are somewhat adjustable depending on the
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level of interest. Prefer to sell in one big shot off
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course, but will break up the set if necessary.
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All sales are C O D via UPS land.
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Call or write via E-Mail here on Compuserve 74016,631
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VOICE (914) 478 5848 or send FAX (914) 478 5851
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#: 11128 S4/MIDI and Music
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20-Jun-91 21:41:54
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Sb: #10650-#latest SMF stuff
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: PaulSeniura 76476,464 (X)
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Say Paul -- I thought you had my docs on the UME file format. Or aren't they
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clear enough towrite code from?
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I appreciate that you might not want to rely on my VIrtual Memory scheme, which
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won't work on GIMIX boxes et al. But my scheme could be easily converted to
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Data Modules, which *do* work on any flavor OS9-L2.
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Sounds like MFF1 files are like LYRA files -- you have to watch all the tracks
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to see who's playing next! Right, a RAM disk will help a lot, but virtual
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memory would be much faster. I do intend to upload a sanitized copy of my virt
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mem routines so anyone can use them. I just uploaded my bit-banger serial MIDI
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driver. {_Sheesh, you wastiong your gorgeous video theatre setup on RERUNS?!?
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--mike k
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#: 11163 S4/MIDI and Music
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23-Jun-91 00:22:33
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Sb: #11128-latest SMF stuff
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Fm: PaulSeniura 76476,464
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To: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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Hi Mike,
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CIS costs too much and I *wish* the OS9UG would "move" to a cheaper place to
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"live". So I left you a reply on Delphi to your messages here on CIS, after
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remembering you wanted to "move" our discussions there, too. Let me know if
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you'd rather use CIS.
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-- Thx, Paul Seniura (76476,464).
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#: 11130 S4/MIDI and Music
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20-Jun-91 21:48:41
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Sb: #10753-latest SMF stuff
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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Hi James. I got that source a while back -- don't remember whether it was from
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you or someone just uploaded it. Bet it was from you after all. I got it
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working enuf to test it, but haven't seriously fooled with it. Would like to,
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but many other things to do, like new UME features. BTW, the MM/1 port has
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already helped add features and remove bugs from the Coco version -- it can now
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enable/disable individual Parts and/or MIDI channels. --mike k
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#: 11131 S4/MIDI and Music
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20-Jun-91 21:51:32
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Sb: #10834-#latest SMF stuff
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Ches Looney 73016,1336 (X)
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Hi Ches. I finally broke down and allowed a PC-AT compatible into the house,
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so I wonder what SongWright sells for, and from whom. Sounds like a PC versin
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of UME. Or can you record your own hand playing into it also? Thanks, mike
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knudsen
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#: 11154 S4/MIDI and Music
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22-Jun-91 10:18:43
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Sb: #11131-latest SMF stuff
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Fm: Ches Looney 73016,1336
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To: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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Mike, it is similar. I'll send you an eazyplex message. Ches.
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#: 11129 S4/MIDI and Music
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20-Jun-91 21:46:08
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Sb: #10738-latest SMF stuff
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: PaulSeniura 76476,464 (X)
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There is a very old MTPanel program for diddling the MT32 -- pretty nice, all
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written in C. I have it here, but forget who wrote and uploaded it too. Larry
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Miner did the Yamaha PSS480 version called PED.
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Soon UME will have MIDI Events, both little 2-3 byte zaps from in the score
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plus whole file writes. Yer right, the factory patches could use a LOT of
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work. So could Roland's cursed note-dropping algorithms. --mike k
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#: 11132 S4/MIDI and Music
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20-Jun-91 21:55:29
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Sb: #10853-#Bad Download
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Lester Hands 70135,430 (X)
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Hi Lester. Wish I'd had my screen-saver mode on -- I caught you recommending
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UltiMuse, grin! Axctually, I steered at least one PC owner on a tight budget
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towards Lyra-PC, so I guess we're even. Is Lyra-PC still marketed? I got a
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used PC-AT and ran your demo verions of that in CGA mode OK. Regards, mike
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knudsen
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#: 11420 S4/MIDI and Music
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21-Jul-91 10:16:20
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Sb: #11132-Bad Download
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Fm: Lester Hands 70135,430
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To: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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Hi Mike! Yep, I try to recommend the best thing for what the person wants.
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Ultimuse is a good program (!) and I don't mind saying so.
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PC-Lyra is still around, though I am not personally marketing it now. It is
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being sold as a part of a FM synthesizer board (that comes with digital
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sampling and a MIDI interface) produced by an Oregon company, Covox.
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You really have a PC?!! I can imagine it is gathering dust most of the time
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<grin>. Lester
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#: 11133 S4/MIDI and Music
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20-Jun-91 21:57:31
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Sb: #10802-UltiMuse3
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Mark Wuest 74030,332 (X)
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Just to tie this off -- I gave Mark the patch to ShellPlus to fix that DirRead
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problem. Patch location $130F from $1F to $11. Yes, patching to $00 will work,
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but $11 helps utility programs run faster. --mike knudsen
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#: 11134 S4/MIDI and Music
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20-Jun-91 21:59:28
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Sb: #10805-UltiMuse3
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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James, inc case you haven't hread, Mark is using ShellPlus v2.1 whjich itself
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does explicit memory allocation of #31 or 7+3/4 K. As you know that messes up C
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programs that malloc() their own RAM. The patch I gave takes that out, or
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replaces it with #4K. --mike k.
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#: 11136 S4/MIDI and Music
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20-Jun-91 22:03:44
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Sb: #10817-#UltiMuse3
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Fm: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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To: Mark Wuest 74030,332 (X)
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Mark, thanks for an idea for a little fix to go in the next version,grin (well
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no grin at your end, sorry!). Yes it's funny to see it save a score named "".
|
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Actually, it might have created a file name .UME -- did you look with a DIR E?
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Not clear what Umuse would show on a Read DIR screen.
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#: 11146 S4/MIDI and Music
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21-Jun-91 10:37:57
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Sb: #11136-UltiMuse3
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Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332
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To: Mike Knudsen 72467,1111
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Mike,
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I've gotten over that little one, and have really had a good time entering and
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play scores. I bought a hi-res mouse adapter for $5.00 and it improves the
|
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"feel", but it worked great without it, IMHO. I bought dynacalc for $5.00 at
|
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the same Rat Shack, BTW. Now, after not running my CoCo for almost two years,
|
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it runs umuse3 on /term, dynacalc in /w1, and ubox3 in /w2, and stay on most of
|
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the time.
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After noting how nice the windowing is on my home computer, we'er getting Sun
|
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Workstations at work, using Sable C++ interpreter for debugging. Now *that* may
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spoil me <g>!
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Mark
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att!docs!mdw
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att!corona!mdw
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attmail!wuest
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(They keep moving us around: I have more logins than a New Yorker has
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attitudes.)
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#: 11135 S15/Hot Topics
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20-Jun-91 22:03:11
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Sb: #11123-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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|
|
Well, I originally ordered last July, and switched to a kit last December, and
|
|
I am still waiting on mine. Mary Kay at IMS said it should have been shipped
|
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last week or early this week, so we'll see (hopefully SOON!).
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Waiting with baited breath,
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--Colin
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#: 11233 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Jun-91 16:05:08
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Sb: #11135-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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Colin,
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Mary Kay sent out some preliminary information that has been updated. Your
|
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computer is actually shipping int he shipment right AFTER Jim Peasley, so he'll
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be a happy camper about two days before you will.
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Let me know if there's anything more we can do.
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IMS
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PAUL WARD
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202 232 4246
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#: 11145 S15/Hot Topics
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21-Jun-91 05:43:13
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Sb: #11123-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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|
|
|
Let's see. I'm one of those who picked up most of my MM/1 at RAINBOWFest. I'm
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still waiting on the I/O board (though there was a UPS sticker saying something
|
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was left at the condo office addressed to me--I'll probably peek in the window
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of the room where they keep such stuff this morning, since they keep pretty
|
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short hours. I don't know what it is, but I am hopeful).
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#: 11234 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Jun-91 16:06:23
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Sb: #11145-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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No, not the I/O board. Testing will take place all next week. It is not trivial
|
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to test hundreds of boards, so be a little patient! As you have been so far.
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Best regards,
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Paul
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IMS
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202 232 4246
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#: 11157 S15/Hot Topics
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22-Jun-91 17:49:01
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Sb: #11123-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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Original order in June or July last year - switched to kit in December (about
|
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the same as Colin). I was told that I was # 20-something (maybe 26, don't
|
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remember for sure) on the list. Watchin & Waitin. Will advise. JohnW
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#: 11166 S15/Hot Topics
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23-Jun-91 12:42:22
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Sb: #11157-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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John;
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|
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Me too... ordered in July and opted for the kit when it looked as though the
|
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FCC was going to hold things up. I've been told that I'm #39.
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|
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Talking to Paul last week he said that they're shipping out 35 computers
|
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twice weekly (this starting 6/10).
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There's 2 ways of interpreting this...
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35 x 2 = 70 computers/week or
|
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17 x 2 = 35 computers/week
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Either way, it would seem that both you and I should have received our MM/1ds
|
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by now.
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|
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Paul said that mine is scheduled to be shipped on 6/30, which doesn't
|
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compute at all... unless they're shipping NEW orders before those from us that
|
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ordered almost a year ago. One would think that back orders would be shipped
|
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out first, and then new orders... at least that's the way I'd do it - support
|
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those that believed enough in me to plunk down their hard-earned cash when
|
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this was just an idea!
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Either something is rotten in Denmark, or we're not getting the full story,
|
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and I'm almost ready to chuck the idea of an MM/1.
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...Jim
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#: 11167 S15/Hot Topics
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23-Jun-91 15:32:19
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Sb: #11166-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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Jim - or it might mean that there were a lot of people who plunked down cash a
|
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long time ago :-) Dunno.
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Very likely, all the small companies hand-assemble/pack the final computers,
|
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and hand-copy the disks... that's a lot of work there alone.
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And there's always the unexpected. Lots of that, in parts, cases, deliveries
|
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by suppliers etc.
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You should see some of the complaints on other forums... and they're about
|
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multimillion dollar companies! So I think continued patience will work out in
|
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this case.
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Y'all ever decide to move, btw? best - kev
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#: 11176 S15/Hot Topics
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24-Jun-91 08:53:58
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Sb: #11167-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kev;
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> Jim - or it might mean that there were a lot of people who plunked down
|
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> cash a long time ago :-) Dunno.
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Yeah, that's me. I was paid in full for my MM/1 on 12/31/90.
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> And there's always the unexpected. Lots of that, in parts, cases,
|
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> deliveries by suppliers etc.
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Understood -- no problem with the unexpected.. I kinda expected that <g>.
|
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My problem comes from the lack of and mis-information coming from IMS. It's
|
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kinda like standing at the counter in a busy store and being 'invisible' to
|
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the clerks there.
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> Y'all ever decide to move, btw? best - kev
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Yep, we decided to move after our first trip out there last summer. Fell in
|
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love with the place. Only things holding us up are getting the house put back
|
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together and a job offer on that end. Latter may be a while, former is coming
|
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along nicely, although slowly.
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...Jim
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#: 11237 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Jun-91 16:19:06
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Sb: #11176-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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Jim,
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I hope our mistakes are not viewed by you as a slight. They are not meant to
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be. In general, our colleagues are damn impressed by what we've done, and IMS
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is very proud of its staff and of our customers.
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Now that we are through the major hump, we'll be very informative because now
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we have the TIME to be up here and elsewhere!
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If you have specific data you would like to see, let us know.
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Paul
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IMS
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202 232 4246
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#: 11252 S15/Hot Topics
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29-Jun-91 12:29:34
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Sb: #11237-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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Paul;
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> I hope our mistakes are not viewed by you as a slight.
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>
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> Now that we are through the major hump, we'll be very informative
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> because now we have the TIME to be up here and elsewhere!
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By the same token, I would hope that my comments about information (lack of
|
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and mis-) were not construed as 'casting aspersions'. My intent was to veice
|
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my frustrations about being 'in the dark' for so long and to hopefully clear
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up some of the mis-information that's been spread about.
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Case in point:
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In the 1/7/91 kit announcement it was mentioned that the MM/1 has been
|
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shipping to industrial users and developers since April, 1990. At the end,
|
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there is an invitation to place orders for FEBRUARY delivery.
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In the update file after the Rainbowfest:
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IMS announces widespread shipping of MM/1 computers.
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Currently, dozens of computers have been shipped...
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The pace of shipping is now brisk. This week has seen the shipping of dozens...
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I could go on, but I think younsee my point. In a dynamic situation, info
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must be updated on a regular basis when you're dealing with customers.
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I can appreciate your busy schedule and coping with unforseen events as I'm
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in the same situption. My customers, while they might not like the delivery
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schedule we've worked out, understand delays that are beyond my control, and
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are quite understanding when they happen -- but ONLY when I inform them that a
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situation has occurred! Communication, therefore, has become a major part of
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my job description.
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I apologize for putting you on the spot like this, but it looks as though
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my note DID trigger the info we've all been looking for.
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...Jim
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p.s. Why don'tcha replace that crashed PC on your desk with a REAL computer?
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01-Jul-91 14:45:17
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Sb: #11252-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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No need to apologize for putting me on the spot, Jim!
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Keeping you informed has been one thing we've LIKED doing -- once again, the
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time crunch has been horrendous. Now things look a little freer, so we'll be up
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often.
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Sure, we've made some missteps by not communicating better, but we now have
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some new policies and procedures that will fix this problem.
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BTW, that damn PC on my desk that has crashed will be replaced VERY soon. I
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am really tired of not having full-screen windows on it, at the very least.
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Paul
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Incidentally, I noted that DOS 5.0 includes some neat features, like line
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editing and an editor better than Edlin.
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Wow, I'm impressed.
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Paul
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26-Jun-91 21:22:44
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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Jim, I suspect the problem is the same as it has always been - surprises keep
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lousing up Paul's predictions on shipping dates. I WAS told that the units
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will be shipped in the same order that orders were received. I believe they
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will stick to that. I'm hanging in there, and I will sing out when I get mine.
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28-Jun-91 16:16:51
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Sb: #11166-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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Jim,
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You misunderstood my numbers, but they are not far off. Still, as I told you on
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the phone, we ship out approximately in the order that we received the orders.
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The variables that go into shipping are exactly these, just so you don't think
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I'm keeping anything from you:
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Who ordered what When do we receive cables for floppies, parallel ports, etc.
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When are the modified cases ready Cash flow for that week When quantity
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purchases need to be made Man power assigned to a given day
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Once these factors are considered, a schedule is set up. When gaps occur,
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simple to assemble kits are inserted from folks who ordered later. That means
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that, in a given month, like June, we have approximatedly 10% of the folks
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being shipped out that ordered somewhat later (like a few weeks later) than
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folks who ship out in early July. The difference is only a few days.
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We work three people around the clock to get these systems out. Each system,
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with case and two board set, manuals, cables, boxing, labeling, and shipping,
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takes approximately four hours. Others take longer when we go throught
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inventory for extra drives, hard drives, custom cables, monitors, keyboards,
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and so on. It is very complex.
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No one here at IMS is holding you up. Data has been fluid as we have been
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handling literally thousands of details.
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Incidentally, ALL computer companies experience delays. Compaq recently told a
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major customer that they were unable to ship for three months. Reason? Memory
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chip availability at the price they wanted. In other words, they were pinching
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dimes and holding up big customers. At least IMS doesn't do THAT!
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Please do stay in touch at 202 232 4246. We'll tell you exactly what we know,
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and what we cannot know, and we will tell you the day your kit ships.
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Yours truly,
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Paul Ward
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IMS
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24-Jun-91 20:24:35
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Sb: #11157-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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Say John, if you call IMS, they can now tell you about what day your system
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will be shipped. Paul Ward hisself told me that mine would be shipped on or
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before July 3'rd, based on the number of people before me and the rate at which
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they are going out.
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--Colin
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26-Jun-91 21:31:42
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Sb: #11181-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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Thanks, Colin, just from following the messages here and on other forums, I
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have a pretty good idea of the shipping progress. I hope EVERYBODY will report
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when they receive the computers - that will keep us all up to date.
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JohnW
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27-Jun-91 12:44:45
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Sb: #11206-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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John,
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I got my MM/1 on tuesday, although I don't know what number I was on the list.
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One small problem, though, I forgot all about a monitor cable, so I haven't
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been able to fire it up yet. Do you know if its easy to make a cable for a
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CM-8? I'm going to try calling IMS this afternoon about one of their adapaters.
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Bill
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27-Jun-91 20:05:55
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Sb: #11213-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill, I don't know what the Monitor End of the CM8 cable looks like, but I do
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have the pin-out for the COCO end (that 10 pin connector that comes with the
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CM8) I had to make up a cable for the Magnavox monitor for my coco. Knowing
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the arrangement for the plug on the computer end of the cm8 cable, it shouldn't
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be too hard to cook up an adaptor for the MM1. Here goes. 1. Ground 2. Ground
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3. Red 4. Green 5. Blue 6. No Connection 7. Sound 8. Horiz Sync 9. Vert Sync
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10. Ground
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Hope this helps.
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JohnW
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27-Jun-91 20:27:54
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Sb: #11214-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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John, thanks for the info on the CM8 cable, now all I need is info on the MM/1
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connector. The documentation for the MM/1 kit refers to an additional
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information sheet that contains board layout, jumper configuration, etc. but it
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didn't come with the kit. I have tried calling IMS for two days, but all I get
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is an answering machine or a busy signal.
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Bill
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27-Jun-91 22:17:08
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Sb: #11215-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill - wish I had the dope on the monitor pinout, but I don't. It's supposed
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to be the same as a "standard PC connector", whatever that means :-)
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Won't swear to it, but P8 must be the Hsync/Vsync inversion jumpers if needed.
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Paul's wife just got back from being away on a job for a coupla months, so
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mebbe he's busier than usual right now :-) Married types understand <g>
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28-Jun-91 06:37:53
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Sb: #11216-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Thanks, Kev. I'll look around for the standard PC pinout, maybe someone else
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will have it. I can understand why its a little difficult to get through at
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IMS, but its so frustrating to finally have an MM/1 and not be able to use it!
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Bill
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28-Jun-91 07:17:44
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Sb: #11217-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Mike Ward 76703,2013
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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I'm not sure this will help but there is a Technical Reference Manual for the
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PC-XT at the office on a shelf (or in a drawer) behind Ed's desk. It has
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pinouts for various things in it. Maybe you'll get lucky!
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28-Jun-91 07:56:10
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Sb: #11218-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Mike Ward 76703,2013 (X)
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I managed to find a couple of files on the IBMHW and Zenith forms. It looks
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like the pins match up one for one on a DB9 connector, so I'm going to go pick
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up a coulple of DB9 connectors, I need one for the serial port too.
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Bill
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28-Jun-91 08:07:18
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Sb: #11219-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Colin McKay 73340,2275
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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MM/1 Connectors
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Video Female 9 Pin D
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1 NC 3 Red 5 Blue 7 NC 9 V-Sync
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2 Gnd 4 Green 6 NC 8 H-Sync
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These are the pinouts for the MM/1 that I got from Paul Ward over the phone the
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other day. Best time to talk to him seems to be between 2 pm and 3pm. (At least
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that's when I usually talk to him.)
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28-Jun-91 10:30:50
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Sb: #11220-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Colin McKay 73340,2275 (X)
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Thanks, Colin, I almost had it right, that is exactly what I needed. I have
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tried calling him then, but apparently everyone else does too, since its
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usually busy. The problem is compouned by the fact that I can't make long
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distance credit card calls from work, so have to go outside to a pay phone.
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Bill
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28-Jun-91 16:26:53
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Sb: #11222-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill,
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Just leave an office number when you call. Right now my IBM PC with my database
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of phone numbers has CRASHED -- well, serves me right -so I can't get to your
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number until find and fix the faulty sector.
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Paul
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Who is, incidentally, using an MM/1 for EVERYTHING else!
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#: 11241 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Jun-91 16:24:59
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Sb: #11217-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill,
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One thing we have begun to implement is a voice contact with each customer
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before shipping. It seems as though what people order and what we send are
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accurate, but what people actually NEED is different, and we are learning the
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questions to ask, e.g., what monitor are you using?
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Best,
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Paul
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IMS
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28-Jun-91 15:42:42
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Sb: #11216-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kev,
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I did have the jumper descriptions all along, I was looking for an actual
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diagram, but the jumpers are listed in the back of the kit installation guide.
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The descriptions could have been more thorough, but the info is adequate for
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what I need. P8 does set logic of HSYNC and VSYNC.
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Bill
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28-Jun-91 16:23:24
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Sb: #11215-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill,
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I got your call on the machine, but did not catch your phone number.
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I will email you jumper configuration.
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CM-8 video and MM/1 video connectors are pin for pin compatible. Just ignore
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line 10.
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Paul
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IMS
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#: 11293 S15/Hot Topics
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05-Jul-91 07:11:37
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Sb: #11215-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill,
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If you ordered soon enough (as in when IMS said that the MM-1 was standard
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with a CM-8 connector) then they will give you a cable FREE (if you really care
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to wait for them to ship it, that is...).
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There is also the pinout for the MM-1 video connector in the latest issue
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of The OSK'er. I believe it matches the MM-1 pin-for-pin. If you want me to
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look it up for you, just yell and I'll be glad to do it.
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-- Colin
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05-Jul-91 09:36:22
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Sb: #11293-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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Colin, thanks, but I have it working now. I think I will ask IMS to send me one
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of their adapters. Bill
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28-Jun-91 16:21:48
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Sb: #11213-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill,
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We ar getting a new passle of CM-8 adapters next week. Call me and I'll
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expedite one to you. They ar emade by the loving hands of Mark Griffith.
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Paul
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IMS
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202 232 4246 2pm - 5pm
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#: 11251 S15/Hot Topics
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29-Jun-91 10:51:44
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Sb: #11239-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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Paul,
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Thanks, but I managed to put one together myself, not only that, but it works!
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I was temporarily stumped by the "backwards" color command, thought I had red
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and green reversed in the adapter, then, of course I noticed the color.note
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file.
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Bill
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#: 11263 S15/Hot Topics
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01-Jul-91 14:40:15
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Sb: #11251-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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I think Brett Wynkoop is selling some OSK / MM/1 stuff with a neato enhanced
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color command. Give him a call at home at 212 567-7617 to order.
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Or you can just place the order with us. Try Brett first though, so he can get
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hte benefit of the work he has put in so far.
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Best,
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Paul IMS
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#: 11292 S15/Hot Topics
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05-Jul-91 07:08:21
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Sb: #11206-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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BTW, due to memory chip delays, my shipping date has been bumped from July 3 to
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July 8. Oh well, after waiting this long, what's a few more days?
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-- Colin
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#: 11300 S15/Hot Topics
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05-Jul-91 20:47:49
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Sb: #11292-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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Oh, well, probably not too much moving in this country between the 3rd and the
|
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8th anyway. Hang in there.
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JohnW
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#: 11304 S15/Hot Topics
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06-Jul-91 11:26:27
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Sb: #11300-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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Like I've said before, when you've waited this long, what's a few more days?
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:-)
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--Colin
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10-Jul-91 23:43:52
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Sb: #11300-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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John,
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Shall we doublecheck your order? Please call Thursday or Friday. In the
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meantime, I'll try to call you.
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Best,
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paul IMS
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#: 11356 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-91 22:09:16
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Sb: #11338-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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Hi Paul,
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Since I live alone and work during the day, I am hard to catch on the phone
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before 5 or 6 EST. I am home most evenings and weekends. I will call you
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Thursday or Friday. Ummm, when we "doublecheck" my order, which of us will be
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looking at a box of computer parts? - In other words, does this mean it will be
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shipped sometime after next Thursday or Friday, (whimper), or you have already
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shipped it and want to know if I got everything I wanted (LARGE Grin)? How's
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it going with the "old" SCSI chips in the second boards? (If you toss a few in
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the box with my MM1, I'll be happy to test them and ship back all but one-
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hehe).
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John Wainwright
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#: 11359 S15/Hot Topics
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12-Jul-91 23:36:27
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Sb: #11356-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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GRIN.
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Your box is being burned in now. Shipment will be by UPS going out sometime
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Tuesday or Wednesday. Sorry I can't be more specific, but you are one of
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fourteen machines going out on those two days. Anyway, BEFORE we send it, we
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need to make sure we are synchronized. We have an order summary printed, but
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often Mary Kay Weglein did not ask questions like: Do you need a CM-8 adapter
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cable? Do you need a 5.25" floppy to transfer data to the MM/1 from your CoCo?
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So give a call.If you will be in over the weekend, call 202 232 4246 and leave
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a message to that effect. I check the office voice mail once a day over the
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weekend.
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Best,
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Paul IMS
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#: 11366 S15/Hot Topics
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13-Jul-91 19:00:33
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Sb: #11359-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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(GRINNING)
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I will be at home on Sunday morning - will leave a message on your machine. In
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case I miss connecting, here is some info.
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Monitor - I have a Magnavox analog monitor xCM535 (forgot first character of
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the model) - 640x200 analog or digital - uses an 8-pin DIN plug for input. I
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have a home-made cable to connect it to the COCO, planned to just put a second
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plug on the same cable when I got the MM1, but if you have a pre-made cable for
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the magnavox, I'll buy it. Disks - My COCO has both 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 disks. As
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long as the highdensity drive in the MM1 can read a 720k 3-1/2 floppy, I should
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have no problem with data transfer. I have a keyboard (NOT the brand that
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someone mentioned he had trouble with). (I also have a 40m SCSI hard drive that
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I hope will work when the second board comes through). I also have a large box
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of tools and a lot of assorted connectors and wire - that MM1 WILL be up and
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running the day it arrives.
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John Wainwright
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#: 11378 S15/Hot Topics
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15-Jul-91 01:30:21
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Sb: #11366-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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John,
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I got a confirmation Saturday that your machine will be shipped on Tuesday. OK,
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Actually he said Monday. But with Murphy's law, Tuesday.
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Sounds like you're set. No need to throw in a CM-8 adapter cable for ya.
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I would recommend you start making that monitor cable.
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Best,
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Paul IMS
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#: 11387 S15/Hot Topics
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15-Jul-91 22:15:30
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Sb: #11378-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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Paul,
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Great! I'll be looking for the delivery truck. Digging out soldering iron.
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(Who was it that said "Murphy was an optimist"?)
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John Wainwright
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#: 11392 S15/Hot Topics
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16-Jul-91 17:00:22
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Sb: #11387-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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John,
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Bad news! No, your computer WAS shipped! But you WON't need a soldering iron!
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Too bad....
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Grin.
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Paul IMS
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#: 11416 S15/Hot Topics
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20-Jul-91 20:32:00
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Sb: #11392-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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Paul,
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It's HERE. The MM/1 arrived Thursday. I am a "happy camper". Re the message
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on your office phone, the 3.5 in high density drive that came with it was DEAD.
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It took me a while to make sure I didn't have some jumper in the wrong place
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(tried everything but exorcism and explosives) I bought another drive (I had
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planned to get a second one anyway) - the second drive worked, but wouldn't get
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all the way through a FORMAT - hung up at cluster 58h - sometimes a little
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further. Now I was sure I had fouled up somewhere (nobody gets TWO bad drives
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in a row, right?). More checking. After several hours, I took BOTH drives to
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my local PC guy and hooked them to a working "286". Sure enough, first one
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DEAD, second one wouldn't format. Third drive did it. Just finished making
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backups of all the distribution disks so I can do some serious fiddling. Wanted
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to use the MM/1 to post this message, but the 9 to 25 pin Rs-232 adaptor I have
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is the wrong gender (Murphy is with me) - I'll get one tommorrow. This message
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complements of my faithful old Tandy 2000 - can't use the COCO either, it lost
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its monitor to the MM/1. I'd swear I heard the COCO whimper when I swiped it's
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Magnavox - I may have to get it one of those close-out CM-8s to console it.
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Back to my new toy.
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Later,
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Oh, I almost forgot, where do I ship that DEAD drive?
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John Wainwright
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#: 11337 S15/Hot Topics
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10-Jul-91 23:42:56
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Sb: #11292-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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Colin,
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We got your machine in from the factory today. We are checking ALL of the new
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boards out, and presuming that they all pass, yours should be along quickly.
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Paul IMS
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#: 11238 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Jun-91 16:20:31
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Sb: #11181-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)
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Colin,
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Actually, I read off our schedule when yours is going out. We are one day
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behind in that schedule, and I predict we will pick up that day next week. So
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you are on for the 3rd.
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Best,
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Paul
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#: 11235 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Jun-91 16:08:26
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Sb: #11157-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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John,
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According to my records, you were either shipped today or will be shipped next
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Monday. The schedule I have was printed about ten days ago. It should be
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relatively up to date.
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Give a call to me next Monday afternoon, i should be able to let you know if it
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went out that day!
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Best regards,
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Paul
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IMS
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202 232 4246
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2pm to 5pm
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#: 11246 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Jun-91 19:17:05
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Sb: #11235-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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Good news! Thanks, Paul - I'll try to call Monday to confirm.
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JohnW
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#: 11190 S15/Hot Topics
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25-Jun-91 10:35:27
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Sb: #11123-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Colin McKay 73340,2275
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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I am number 19 on the list. According to Paul Ward, my system was shipped out
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last Thursday, June 20. I haven't received it yet though. (I live in Canada, so
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it is probably tied up at customs.)
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Anyway, I dispute Paul's statement in his posting on 14 June that "dozens" of
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systems had been shipped. Better not have been, as I was number 19 on the list.
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;-)!!
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Hopefully mine will be here soon. Ken Scales (#21) has his machine, but it was
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initially sent without the disks. They arrived yesterday though. (24 June)
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#: 11207 S15/Hot Topics
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26-Jun-91 21:37:49
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Sb: #11190-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
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To: Colin McKay 73340,2275 (X)
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Wellllll, if you are speaking in "dozens" and you have shipped 13 of them,
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--that's more than a dozen, so it's dozens. (Right?) ;)
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JohnW
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#: 11212 S15/Hot Topics
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27-Jun-91 11:36:36
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Sb: #11207-#MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Colin McKay 73340,2275
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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Well, no. Dozens implies (at least to me) more than one dozen, ie two dozen, or
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three dozen. Not a dozen plus one.
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Anyway, a moot point since mine has been shipped. Its probably sitting in
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customs right now.
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#: 11244 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Jun-91 16:30:42
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Sb: #11212-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Colin McKay 73340,2275 (X)
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Colin,
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Yes, it has been confirmed by North Carolina that yours was seen sitting
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waiting for UPS a couple of days ago, so it surely is either on its way on the
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Big Grey Truck, or at customs.
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Paul
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IMS
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#: 11243 S15/Hot Topics
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28-Jun-91 16:29:33
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Sb: #11207-MM/1 delivery
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
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You gotta count the people at the Fest we shipped to, as well. Your system is
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going out with 19, 20, 23, 24 and 25 -- so you can see there is a LITTLE
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skipping around -- as explained before it has to do with several variables. But
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we are only one day behind now!
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Feels good, BTW.
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Paul
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IMS
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202 232 4246
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#: 11137 S1/General Interest
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21-Jun-91 00:04:31
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Sb: #The REPLY Command!
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Fm: Keith H. March 70541,1413
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To: All
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Hello:
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How do I reply to a forum message? I have tried typing REPLY and it come back,
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invalided command>
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Help, Keith
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11142 S1/General Interest
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21-Jun-91 01:06:01
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Sb: #11137-The REPLY Command!
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
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Keith -
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Just type REP at the 'Read Action !' prompts. Also, type HELP anytime you're
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unsure of what to do next.
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Pete
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#: 11141 S7/Telecommunications
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21-Jun-91 01:01:20
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Sb: #11122-Sterm1_4 parameters
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Jim Peasley 72726,1153 (X)
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Nothing to review.... Kevin Pease has graciously floated me an 020 as a nasty
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trick to keep me immersed in os9, and to keep from from becoming exclusively
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Unix (grin). It's a Gimix 68020 SBC, and he's outfitted it with 16 serial
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ports, a SCSI drive, and os9 2.3 for the 68020. Actually, I'm engaged in
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working on grafting the autobaud mechanisms into Mtsmon so we can get some
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reliable, secure, and baud rate agile login facilities for UUCP and general
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use. My travel schedule (and school) is playing hell with my progress, but I
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will get it done shortly.
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Pete
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#: 11191 S7/Telecommunications
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25-Jun-91 14:18:53
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Sb: #11010-Sterm1_4 parameters
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Ooofff! I just realized I haven't been on in a month. Sorry. Should be 'sterm
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/t7' unless it is the latest version. In that case it is 'sterm -l /t7' (like
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kermit ;-)
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#: 11147 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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21-Jun-91 14:47:54
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Sb: OSK 68000 Archives
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Fm: CHUCK LOUGHRY 70615,213
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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P}iete - Thanks for the help on the 68000 OSK problem. I have been trying to
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figure out how to get some of the great software out here but didn't know which
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archiver to use. Again, Thanks Pete.
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CHUCK [ 70615,213 ]
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#: 11162 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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23-Jun-91 00:19:59
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Sb: #still need help!
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Fm: PaulSeniura 76476,464
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To: all
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Well, once again I thought I'd remind everyone I'm *still* awaiting responses
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of any kind from the various articles and documentation I've uploaded over the
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past 8 months or so. I'm even dreaming up more projects to do on the CoCo3.
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I've not typed up or uploaded other things I've already accomplished because I
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see we're not getting anywhere at all on the current items. The Rainbow
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magazine has even mentioned some of the articles (some are still too new), but
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I've gotten no useful feedback whatsoever. (I capture *every* message in the
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OS9 forums on CIS and Delphi and look at my E-mail if any.)
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Have we actually lost that many CoCo/OS9ers to the other wolves? The only
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other thing I can assume at this point: Is everyone too busy with other
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projects?
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I'm *very* much ready to commence on the 12-bit Timer Driver/SVC for OS9, and
|
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possibly updating the set of SMF Converters/Players to utilize it. What I need
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help with is already mentioned in the TMRDRV.TXT file I uploaded some months
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ago already, so please read it before responding if you wish to help.
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-- Thx, Paul Seniura.
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#: 11223 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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28-Jun-91 13:59:31
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Sb: #11162-still need help!
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Fm: Tom Napolitano 70215,1130
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To: PaulSeniura 76476,464 (X)
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-> ->Have we actually lost that many CoCo/OS9ers to the other wolves? The
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->only other thing I can assume at this point: Is everyone too busy with
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->other projects? ->
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Paul,
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No, we're still out here. I'm currently working on a graphical
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japanese kanji dictionary and study aid. Pretty far removed from your work
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with music. Just thought I'd let you know we weren't ignoring you for personal
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reasons. Keep the faith.
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tom n
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#: 11279 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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02-Jul-91 17:04:19
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Sb: #11162-still need help!
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: PaulSeniura 76476,464 (X)
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No, despite what some editorials and people say, I don't think we've "lost that
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many to the wolves" :-) Times are just tight, and people are very busy, at
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the moment. All you have to do is to read other computer forums to find out
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that this is universally true.
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I was going to reply to your grfdrv article months back, but lost both it and
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my answer when my ramdisk got clobbered during a thunderstorm glitch. I'll try
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again.
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Grfdrv uses a max window size table (which you gave patches for), and figures
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the max gfx coords on the fly. So no, it doesn't use IT.ROW directly. The
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scaling math is hardcoded to 191 tho.
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Your suggestions for either extending grfdrv into the extra block in the
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graphics system map, or using it to map in longer screens, are valid. What I
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used it for in the end, was as a place to map in a lookup mask drawing to
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covered/overlapped windows.
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You've given me another idea tho. The OSK window system has totally separate
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driver internals for each gfx mode. The CoCo window system had it all together
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within the 8K grfdrv module. Perhaps if we split up grfdrv into specialized
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modules, we could add more functionality and speed without using up more
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graphics map space for a larger grfdrv.
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That wasn't possible back when we had to worry about 128K systems, but how many
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people have those now? :-) best - kev
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#: 11172 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Jun-91 00:04:33
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Sb: #11101-#zmodem for osk
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Fm: BILL HEALTON 73367,357
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To: Clyde C. Price, Jr. 76616,3452 (X)
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Clyde - My name is Bill Healton, I have an Atari 520STfm. I have been running
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OSK version 2.2 since mid-1988. I tried rz/sz but came up with the ever
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prominent(on ST/OSK) Error #000:102; a bus error. This is apparently due to
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the fact that unlike most of the other OSK systems, the ST leaves the low RAM
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area available to Atari TOS calls (I/O mostly). The ST also has a hardware
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generated bus error when this area is accessed in non-system mode. This
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typically keeps most of the good programs from running. I would like to see
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more programs work. I believe this can be accomplished by installing a bus
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error handler routine if I can establish what is generating the errors.
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The following is what running sz &rz with a "-?" option generates:
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sz -?
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Send file(s) with Zmodem/Ymodem/Xmodem Protocol
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(Y) = Option applies to YMODEM only
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(Z) = Option applies to ZMODEM only
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Error 000:102
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rz -?
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rz 1.08 09-15-86 for Error 000:102
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If you can determine what code could be generating the Error 000:102 this
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would be a big help in trying to resolve this problem. I suspect any
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non-variable/non-OS9 call, especially a D_xxxx direct access.
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Thanks for your help...Bill Healton 73367,357
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#: 11177 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Jun-91 11:32:05
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Sb: #11172-zmodem for osk
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Fm: Clyde C. Price, Jr. 76616,3452
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To: BILL HEALTON 73367,357 (X)
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Bill,
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Your question got above my head quickly. I'll pass it along to the
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C-slingers that I'm working with in the Atlanta Computer Society. We're trying
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to find as high a degree as possible of compatibility between the different OSK
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machines, but we're hindered until our better programmers get their MM1 kits
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delivered. --Clyde
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#: 11173 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Jun-91 04:14:16
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Sb: #11051-Multistart bug
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Fm: William Phelps 75100,265
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)
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After doing some tests, it seems that the bug I have is in Shell+; Is 2.0 the
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latest version?
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William
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#: 11175 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Jun-91 08:42:21
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Sb: #FD-502 wiring
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Fm: David Betz 76704,47
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To: all
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|
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I just purchased an FD-502 at the new $59 price and want to add the second
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drive to it. When I opened the case, I noticed that RS used strange power
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connectors for the drives. Does anyone know where I can get adaptors for
|
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normal floppy power connectors? Alternatively, I suppose I could cut off the
|
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connectors and replace them with normal connectors. Does anyone know how the
|
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new connectors should be wired? One last question: there is a second
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connector coming from the power supply in addition to the power cable for the
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second drive. Any idea what that is for? There doesn't seem to be any
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corresponding cable connected to the first drive.
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Thanks in advance, David Betz
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#: 11179 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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24-Jun-91 20:03:29
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Sb: #11175-#FD-502 wiring
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: David Betz 76704,47 (X)
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David-
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The weird little connector is for the fan Tandy includes with /d1. Personally,
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I've never used it, although I always reroute the ribbon cable so it doesn't
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cover up the power suppy! I tried color to color on the weird drive power, that
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didn't work on a TEAC 55B. So the old 501 pwr. supply is hacked in for now (BTW
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the Kings Quest card exactly covers my TEAC as a case!) Although you can get an
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adapter from CoCoPro! 1334 Byron Ave. Ypsilanti MI 48198 for $6.00. Best, Rick
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#: 11221 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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28-Jun-91 08:08:37
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Sb: #11179-FD-502 wiring
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Fm: David Betz 76704,47
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Thanks for the info!
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#: 11183 S1/General Interest
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24-Jun-91 20:38:52
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Sb: Hard Drive For Sale
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Fm: PHILLIP TAYLOR 72067,3430
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To: ALL
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If anyone is interested,I have a 40 meg Hard drive (St251-1).It comes with case
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and power supply,Manual and a controller card.Its all ready to to go, All you
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need to do is to hook it up.
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The case and power supply or used,But the drive is only 3 weeks old. everything
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works...If your interested,You either call me voice,Or you can call my bbs.
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Please if your going to buy it,Send only a money order,Include $21.00 for
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shipping and for insurance.
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Phillip L Taylor Jr
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(703)-560-7612 East Coast Time.
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(703)-573-2246 BBS
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2446 Shenandoah St
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Vienna Va 22180
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Selling For $340.00
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#: 11185 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Jun-91 20:58:53
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Sb: #Allocation help
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: all
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I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion for me. I'm using a singly linked list
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to store strings of an unknown length. We I started I set up the following
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structure:
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struct data{
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struct data *next;
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char *text;
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}
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Then I'd malloc() memory for the structure and for the text storage. Of course,
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the two memory requests are not necessary, so I'm now getting enough memory for
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the 'next' pointer plus the text. The question is: is there an elegant way to
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ensure portablility and make this a bit more readable later. For some reason,
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the following leaves a great deal to be desired:
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woof=malloc(sizeof(struct foo)+strlen(buffer));
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...check for valid p & setup links
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strcpy(woof+1,buffer);
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I tried setting up a dummy pointer in the structure, but that doesn't seem to
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work. The other solution is to have 'text' in the structure defined as 'char
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text[1]' and then do the malloc() for sizeof(struct data)-1+strlen(buffer). One
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of the problems with this is that we have to assume the order of the data in
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the structure, and I don't believe that element 1 in a structure HAS to follow
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element 2 (even though it does in most implementations). Guess the safest is to
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do 2 malloc()s.
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Any ideas?
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#: 11186 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Jun-91 22:07:42
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Sb: #11185-#Allocation help
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)
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The canonical C sleaze method is the trailing one-element array method. C
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*does* guarantee that the order of declaration corresponds to the order of
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fields in memory for structures, aside from some fine print concerning bit
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fields (the vagaries of byte ordering and the like don't let one say quite as
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much about them as about plain old members of structures). Strictly speaking,
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the method doesn't *have* to work (an interpreted C, or some system with bounds
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checking, --er, attempts--to go past the end of the array as declared), but in
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practice it will work.
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#: 11187 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Jun-91 22:21:02
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Sb: #11186-#Allocation help
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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Not just that JJ/Bob, but aren't several compilers setup so that structures
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start on word or longword boundaries? That could screw this up, and two mallocs
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may be the best way to do it. Don't forget, malloc() may not have to call the
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system twice if it preallocated a large enough block to begin with.
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Pete
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#: 11202 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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26-Jun-91 21:15:33
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Sb: #11187-#Allocation help
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Pete/JJ, I think that the 'nicest' way to do the allocation *is* with two
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malloc()s. But, even if malloc() doesn't need to call the system at all for
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memory it still exacts a fairly heavy price in overhead. Each malloc() has to
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keep track of the memory point and the size (I believe it uses a linked list
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for this). Something like 8 bytes per call? The other un-nice thing about two
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malloc()s is that two free()s are needed to get rid of the stored stuff--again,
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not a big deal, but one more thing to go wrong!
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BTW, I "discovered" an interesting thing about the the 68K compilier--it does
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structure assignments and will pass structures by value (pushes the whole thing
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onto the stack!). Don't ask just how I found this out <grin>.
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#: 11205 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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26-Jun-91 21:28:59
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Sb: #11202-Allocation help
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)
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Since you <grin>ned, I bet it was by passing a structure (sounds painful, eh?
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:-) when you meant to pass its address. If that's it, don't feel bad; I've
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done it too.
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#: 11189 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Jun-91 22:49:57
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Sb: #OSK Unzip?
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: all
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Hey... does anyone have an IBM unzip for OSK? I've been running into files
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which are just way too large to unzip using the 6809 version (because of
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limited disk space on my CoCo).
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Much thanks - kev
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#: 11203 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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26-Jun-91 21:16:08
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Sb: #11189-#OSK Unzip?
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Fm: Randy Donahoo 72520,3607
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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kevin,
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There is a UN*X unzip written in C with source code available. I have not
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tried to port it to OS9/68000.
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randy donahoo
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#: 11208 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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27-Jun-91 00:43:19
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Sb: #11203-OSK Unzip?
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Randy Donahoo 72520,3607
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Thanks, Randy.. I guess I should start learning C again :-)
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#: 11195 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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25-Jun-91 20:09:21
|
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Sb: #11108-More MM/1 Questions :)
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
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Thanks for the questions! I'll give you a call and upload the answers here.
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Best,
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Paul IMS
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#: 11196 S1/General Interest
|
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25-Jun-91 20:15:35
|
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Sb: For Sale
|
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Fm: PHILLIP TAYLOR 72067,3430
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To: All
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Here are some Color Computer Stuff I am selling.If your interested you either
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leave me message or you can call me voice.
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If you want to buy something,Please send only a money order.Shipping Cost is
|
|
not included.
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St251-1 (40 Meg Hard Drive).Case and power supply are used,But the Drive and
|
|
the controller card are only 3 weeks old.Ready to run. (Add $21.00 for
|
|
Shipping)========================>$320.00 Radio Shack
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Cm8-monitor==========================>$ 60.00 Color Computer two with
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64k======================>$ 50.00 Pbbs Os9 Level 2 Bulletin Board (Req 512k
|
|
Mem)===>$ 40.00 File System Repack (Docs and 1 Disk)=============>$ 25.00 Disk
|
|
Anti Pirate (Coco 2)Coco 2)=================>$ 15.00 Multi View (Os9 Level 2)
|
|
Coco3ual)===============>$ 20.00 King Quest 3 (Coco 3)
|
|
===========================>$ 19.00 Deskmate (Coco 3 Comes with Disk and
|
|
Manual)=====>$ 19.00 Colorama (Cooco 2) Comes with 1 Disk And Manual==>$ 9.00
|
|
Warrior King Coco 3,Comes with 1 Disk And Manual=>$ 19.00 Sub Battle (Coco
|
|
3),Comes with 1 Disk and Manual=>$ 15.00 Flight Simulator (Coco
|
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3),=========(Used)========>$ 12.00 Quickpro II Automatic Progrtam Coco
|
|
2============>$ 10.00 Os9 Level 2 Comes with 2 disk and Manual=========>$
|
|
15.00 Cash Budget Management Disk======================>$ 10.00 Color Profile
|
|
(Coco 2).Disk===================== >$ 15.00 Disk Edtasm (Coco 2) Disk and
|
|
Manual=============>$ 15.00 Flight Simulator II Coco 3,(Never
|
|
used)==========>$ 20.00
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Cont to Next Message
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help
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#: 11200 S1/General Interest
|
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26-Jun-91 18:03:28
|
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Sb: Hard Drive For Sale
|
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Fm: PHILLIP TAYLOR 72067,3430
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To: All
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|
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Here are some Coco Stuff for sale.If you see something you like,Please leave me
|
|
a message,Or you may call me voice.
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|
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St251-1 Seagate 40 meg.Case and and power supply are used,But the drive and
|
|
controller card are only 3 weeks
|
|
old.===========================================>$340.00
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|
|
Phillip Taylor
|
|
Voice (703)-560-7612
|
|
BBS (703)-573-2246
|
|
2446 Shenandoah St
|
|
Vienna,Va 22180
|
|
|
|
Ps Checks will be held
|
|
for 7 days,If you use
|
|
a money order,It will
|
|
be sent to you within
|
|
three days.
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#: 11201 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
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26-Jun-91 21:13:21
|
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Sb: #11075-Want Graphics
|
|
Fm: Randy Donahoo 72520,3607
|
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To: Robert Heller 71450,3432 (X)
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|
|
Robert,
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|
|
Vigra has a board for the VMEbus actually two boards of which one might meet
|
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your needs. The MMI-100B with 1024x1020 pixels and 256 colors uses a video
|
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memory controller with palette. This board also has a Motorola 56001 DSP for
|
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audio capabilities. The multi-media interface card. It also has 2 AT type (9
|
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pin DIN) serial ports and a PC keyboard. Microphone input for recording
|
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sounds. They have a MMI-150 same as above without audio support. oops three
|
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boards and a MMI-250 with VME and VSB interface. Programmable resolution to
|
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1280x1024 with 1,2,4, or 8 bits per pixel. 2 Mbyte of multi-ported video RAM
|
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and 2 rs-232c ports, AT keyboard port and programmable sound generator.
|
|
MMI-250-2 2 meg MMI-250-4 4 Meg memory. MMI-100B 1Mbyte memory
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|
|
Vigra, Inc 4901 Morena Blvd. Bldg. 502 San Diego, CA 92117 (619) 483-1197
|
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|
|
I have a MMI-100B that we use at work here in Stillwater, OK...I do not work
|
|
for Vigra.....
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Randy Donahoo
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#: 11209 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
|
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27-Jun-91 07:45:26
|
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Sb: IMS status
|
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
|
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To: All
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|
|
Mark Griffith responds to several comments regarding IMS status ...
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|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
To All Those Waiting for an MM/1:
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I understand how frustrating it can be waiting for a machine that you have
|
|
paid for so long ago. I also realize how easy it is to let thoughts of
|
|
misdeed creep into your mind while thinking of your hard earned cash being
|
|
someplace else and not seeing anything for it.
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|
|
Let me assure you that IMS is not intentionally withholding any machines from
|
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anyone, nor are they shipping machines to new customers forcing older
|
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customers to wait. The process is slow. Everyone involved has a steady
|
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full-time job other than IMS and can only process orders evening and on the
|
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weekends. Also, as Kevin pointed out, it is slow copying disk and putting
|
|
everything together by hand.
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|
|
Also, there are the ever present problems with manufacturing the boards.
|
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What do you do when the manufacturer makes a mistake and the first batch
|
|
of boards don't work? You have to fix them all by hand which takes even
|
|
more time and pushes everything back. What is something else happens on the
|
|
second batch? Everyone is trying hard to get the machine out the door, but
|
|
there are always delays that cause expected shipping days to pass by with
|
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out reaching the goals that were set.
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|
|
Compound all this with the perchived absence of Paul Ward from the public eye
|
|
and people start crying "foul". Paul is spendin ALL his spare time trying
|
|
to get the thousand and one things done that need to be taken care of each
|
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day to keep this all running. Add to that the need to promote the machine
|
|
and talk to financial backers, give demos, etc., he just doesn't have time to
|
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appear here or on other forums.
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So, give IMS a break. They are working hard at it, and implying something
|
|
is rotten in Denmark just isn't being fair.
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Mark
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Usenet ....!uflorida!ki4pv!macs!stetson!rewop!sysop
|
|
UUCP direct (904) 736-1849 rewop!sysop
|
|
Internet griffith@stetson.bitnet
|
|
US Snail 953 W. Wisconsin Ave. DeLand FL 32720
|
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Phone (904) 736-1535
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#: 11224 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
|
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28-Jun-91 15:34:49
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Sb: #11077-Dir
|
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
|
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To: Paul Rinear 73757,1413 (X)
|
|
|
|
The MM/1 comes with an exclusively licensed LS command that lets you find out,
|
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among other things, the decimal file size. This LS also allows you to find
|
|
total byte usage in a directory, complete pathnames, and UNIX style markings --
|
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/ for directories, * for executables.
|
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|
|
Paul
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#: 11225 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
|
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28-Jun-91 15:36:07
|
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Sb: #11085-Dir
|
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
|
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To: Paul Rinear 73757,1413 (X)
|
|
|
|
I've used Sdir on the Coco 3 -- works great. In fact, there is also an alias
|
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command for OS-9/6809 -- I used that so that, every time I typed Dir, Sdir was
|
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called.
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With certain options on it, too. (Otherwise, you could just rename the file.)
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Paul
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#: 11226 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
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28-Jun-91 15:41:43
|
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Sb: #11079-Me and my MM/1! :)
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
|
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
|
|
|
|
Keith, and others curious about the I/O board -update, Western Digital is shipping a defective host adapter mask. We have
|
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found nondefective chips and are checking them out. I/O boards were received
|
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this week at IMS. Give us some time to make sure all is well with these new
|
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chips.
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|
|
Incidentally, preliminary tests with our new hard disk drivers put throughput
|
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at up to 1.8 Mbytes per second. That's screaming fast.
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|
Paul IMS
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#: 11229 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
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28-Jun-91 15:47:03
|
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Sb: #11104-Questions about the MM/1
|
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
|
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To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)
|
|
|
|
Ed,
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|
|
Thanks for the informative response to Keith's question.
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|
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Best regards,
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Pau
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IMS
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#: 11230 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
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28-Jun-91 15:47:37
|
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Sb: #11097-dEd 68000
|
|
Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
|
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
|
|
|
|
Pete,
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|
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There is a ded for OSK. Keith is getting it.
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|
|
Paul
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IMS
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#: 11232 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
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28-Jun-91 15:58:15
|
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Sb: #11113-Help with the MM/1
|
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
|
|
To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
|
|
|
|
Keith,
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|
|
|
Nothing was buggy at all, Keith! We left off one file and we are updating two
|
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files. Also, we are now including some public domain fonts!
|
|
|
|
Did you have the impression that something was buggy on the disks? If so,
|
|
|
|
how did you get htat impression? Thanks!
|
|
|
|
Mark's CServe ID is 76247,1332.
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|
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He gets on about once every two weeks.
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|
|
Paul
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IMS
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202 232 4246
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#: 11250 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
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29-Jun-91 08:41:21
|
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Sb: #11113-Help with the MM/1
|
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Fm: Mark B. Sheffield 76247,1332
|
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
|
|
|
|
Keith -
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|
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Your kit installation instructions should be there by now.
|
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|
|
Some files were missing from the original MM/1 distribution disk set. The new
|
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set now has those files.
|
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|
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-mark
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#: 11245 S15/Hot Topics
|
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28-Jun-91 17:27:52
|
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Sb: #MM/1 up and running
|
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
|
|
To: all
|
|
|
|
Well, after a few startup problems (all mine, by the way, the kit went together
|
|
flawlessly) I now have a working MM/1. Lots to learn, now that I can really get
|
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my hands on OSK. From what Paul Ward has said (msg 11226) we should be getting
|
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I/O boards soon, then I can really get going, since I can hook up a hard disk.
|
|
I picked up a CM-8 for $134 at a local Radio Shack today, so that will be my
|
|
MM/1 monitor for now.
|
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|
|
Bill
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There are 2 Replies.
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#: 11247 S15/Hot Topics
|
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28-Jun-91 19:25:07
|
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Sb: #11245-#MM/1 up and running
|
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Fm: John R. Wainwright 72517,676
|
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
|
|
|
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(applause) Should have mine soon - Paul said shipping today or Monday.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11266 S15/Hot Topics
|
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01-Jul-91 14:48:18
|
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Sb: #11247-MM/1 up and running
|
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
|
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To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
|
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|
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John,
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|
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We are copying floppies today for those shipments. Some new stuff on those
|
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disks,too! Further word will be announced here.
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|
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Best,
|
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|
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Paul IMS
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#: 11265 S15/Hot Topics
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01-Jul-91 14:47:33
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Sb: #11245-#MM/1 up and running
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill,
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We are now beta testing a hard disk driver that is a screamer. The driver that
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you have on your distribution disks is quite nice -- but THIS ONE ... screech,
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ROAR!!!
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Takes off like a bat out of he**. Quantum Pro logs in at 1.8 Megabytes/sec.
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Paul IMS
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#: 11270 S15/Hot Topics
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01-Jul-91 17:47:37
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Sb: #11265-#MM/1 up and running
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Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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Paul,
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That's fast! I'm online now with the MM/1 and Sterm. What is out there in the
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terminal program market that I could use for VT52 or VT100 emulation? I need to
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dial in to the mainframe at work (they're buying me a 9600 baud modem) but I
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need something like VT100 to pull it off. I wrote my own terminal program for
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my CoCo, but really don't want to do that again!
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Bill
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#: 11275 S15/Hot Topics
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02-Jul-91 10:50:21
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Sb: #11270-MM/1 up and running
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)
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Bill,
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You should ask Kevin Darling about VT52 or VT100 emulation stuff. I know he's
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been trying to get some compatibility, based on his own instincts about What Is
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Good To Do, and based on pressure he's getting from NC State.
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Best
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Paul
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IMS
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#: 11249 S1/General Interest
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29-Jun-91 00:34:42
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Sb: #B&B Interface
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Fm: Don Kircher 76346,3475
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To: all
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Has anyone heard from Chris Burke? I've been trying to get in touch with him
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for a month now for some assistance with his XTRTC.
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#: 11254 S1/General Interest
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30-Jun-91 08:58:40
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Sb: #11249-B&B Interface
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Don Kircher 76346,3475 (X)
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Don,
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According to forum records, Chris last checked in
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June 16, 1991 at 15:50. His ID is [72240,304]. You might try leaving MAIL or a
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message here is his box is full.
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Steve
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#: 11269 S1/General Interest
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01-Jul-91 17:11:40
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Sb: #11249-B&B Interface
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Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662
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To: Don Kircher 76346,3475 (X)
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Don,
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You're best bet is to just call Chris. I had absolutely no trouble
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getting in touch wuth him by phone about a month ago. The
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regular # is 206-432-1814. I don't have the 800 # handy.
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Actually, he called *me* back after I left a message.
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--
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==================================================================
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Hugo Bueno | Delphi: MRGOOD Compuserve: 71211,3662
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Fanwood, NJ | UUCP: ...!(rutgers,njin)!fdurt1!kc2wz!bluehaus!hugo
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CoCo 3 UUCP | ...!uunet!bluehaus.uucp!hugo
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==================================================================
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#: 11255 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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30-Jun-91 13:07:27
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Sb: CoCo 3 w/ST157N SCSI HD.
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Fm: Keith H. March 70541,1413
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To: All
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Hello I need help on getting a ST157N SCSI HD to work with the DISTO HD-II
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board . What do I need to change in the program called "FMTSGATN" on the RS-DOS
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side of the DISTO HARD DISK DRIVER{ disk
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Please HELP!
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Keith
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#: 11256 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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30-Jun-91 13:37:04
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Sb: gshell patch
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: all
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I downed the GSHELL.AR file for Multi-Vue, but can't seem to make it work.
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Always get 'data mismatch @ $0002 - is $FF, should be $3F'. Size of gshell is
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$3FEB, edition is 1. What am I doing wrong? or do I need to do something with
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gshell.ipc before using in IPatch? BTW, I'd like to thank everyone here who has
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responded so far. Made more improvements in two months than the previous year.
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SUCH A DEAL!
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Thanx - Rick
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#: 11257 S7/Telecommunications
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30-Jun-91 14:53:35
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Sb: OSTerm v2.0.8 patch
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Fm: Bruce Isted 76625,2273
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To: All
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I've figured out where OSTerm v2.0.8 "cheats" and have changed it to call
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some routines I've tacked onto the end. These routines depend on a driver that
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supports the enhanced SS.ComSt call (which returns 6551 style DSR+DCD status
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info in the [B] register), such as DACIA/SACIA and most of the RiBBS supporting
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drivers. This allows the auto-dialer and some other functions to work fully,
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no matter what serial hardware is used.
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I have put together an ARChive containing the IPatch file and brief
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instructions, and uploaded it here. Look for "O208IP.ARC" in the telcom (7)
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data library. DeArc is required to extract the files from the ARChive, and Bob
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Santy's IPatch utility (from "PATCH.AR") is also required.
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Bruce
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#: 11258 S1/General Interest
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01-Jul-91 00:24:08
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Sb: #11094-#Apple Mac
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Fm: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143
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To: Keith Jacobs 72331,712
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My new catalog from Frank Hogg Laboratories says they have os9 for the mac
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Which runs concurrently with mac operating system, combining for the best
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of both worlds. I think it was about the same price as a os9 computer with
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software around $1000.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11267 S1/General Interest
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01-Jul-91 14:50:44
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Sb: #11258-#Apple Mac
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143 (X)
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Bruce,
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Good to hear from ya', buddy! How are things in the printing biz?
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Best,
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Paul IMS
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#: 11286 S1/General Interest
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04-Jul-91 09:59:01
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Sb: #11267-#Apple Mac
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Fm: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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The printing biz which has been rough with many big shops closing their doors
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does seem to be improving. I hope the rexession is over. Still using os9
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level 2 on my coco and basic09 software to do estimating, history of jobs,
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paper orders, customer database, and a few other things. I want to buy
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a new osk machine, learn C and connect my coco as a graphics terminal
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along with 2 or 3 other terminals in the shop. What about extra rs232
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ports on the mm/1 I know you have 5 but I will likley need more? I hope
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to convert some of my printing programs to run under osk and make them
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available.
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#: 11289 S1/General Interest
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04-Jul-91 17:04:37
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Sb: #11286-#Apple Mac
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Fm: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754
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To: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143 (X)
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What about a 'simple' step upwards?? Get a Tomcat9 instead of going into the
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6800 series completely.
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The TC9 is 6809 based, so you can use ALL of your current B09 and OS9 software,
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plus, if you get the Tiger Card, you can run background animation from the
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Tiger, while the TC9 runs another program.
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(That's an EXAMPLE, the possibilities with the Tiger Card are limitless).
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The TC9 (which I have ordered), will cost literally hundreds less than the
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MM/1; run ALL of my current software at 2+ times the speed; plus with the
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Tiger, opens up new programming possibilities.
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While I do respect the possibilities of the 68000 based computers, the TC9
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seems to me to be a more logical choice. (It's a 'minor' step upwards, yet
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could be a huge leap, too!)
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As to C programming, that is the wave of the near future for computers. I
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signed up for 3 courses in a local University on the language, as C (for the
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next 10 or so years) WILL become the language of choice. It is able to be
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ported to other systems, can manipulate bytes, data, strings, arrays, unlike
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B09. (I'd be a fool to say it's 'user-friendly'..., but in it's simplicity,
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the power is overwhelming, compared to B09)
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Good luck on your projects....also, please consider the TC9....might just be
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what the doctor ordered....
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Jim Sutemeier
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#: 11290 S1/General Interest
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04-Jul-91 18:17:21
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Sb: #11289-#Apple Mac
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754 (X)
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I'd be very interested in hearing the basis on which the claim of a 2* speedup
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between the CoCo 3 (presumably running at about 1.8 MHz, as it does under OS-9)
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and the TC9 is made. Is that overall, or for I/O bound or CPU bound programs,
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or what?
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11296 S1/General Interest
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05-Jul-91 10:54:07
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Sb: #11290-#Apple Mac
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Fm: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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Welp, Frank explained it to me...about 6 weeks ago....and (darnit) I've crammed
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my 'lil ole brain with so much stuff about the TC9, TC70 and MM/1, I can't
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respond properly to you right now.
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Tell you what, as soon as I get my TC9, I'll post a message (or three - grin)
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up here, and will report if I see any significant speedups in programs.
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As I do run a BBS, and am quite familiar with loading times, etc., of my
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software, if there is a noticable change, I'll spot it quickly.
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Jim Sutemeier SysOp <Plain Rap> BBS 818:772-8890
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11299 S1/General Interest
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05-Jul-91 19:56:35
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Sb: #11296-Apple Mac
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754 (X)
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Thanks! Will look forward to hearing from you.
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#: 11298 S1/General Interest
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05-Jul-91 19:53:48
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Sb: #11286-#Apple Mac
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143 (X)
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Ahhh a printer!
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How large is your shop? Offset? Flexo? Letterpress? Web?
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What type of software are you running for your applications? 4GL or something
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from scratch.
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Steve
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11302 S1/General Interest
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05-Jul-91 23:48:13
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Sb: #11298-#Apple Mac
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Fm: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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small commercial offset printer. Just duplicator size presses. We run some
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basic09 software that I wrote and continue to improve upon. Originally
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we only did estimating then came printing job jackets, invoices, paper orders
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, customer mailist, ink orders, production schedule, production data, job data,
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I thing thats about it now
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I can not operate so efficiently without my coco3 .... I have 3 in caseof
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failure!
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I hope to learn c, and port my software over to osk then I may try to market
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the package as a value added guy. I am running out of process memory for
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some of the things I want to do and so osk instead of tc9.
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#: 11303 S1/General Interest
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06-Jul-91 09:48:37
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Sb: #11302-#Apple Mac
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143 (X)
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Sounds great, Bruce!
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I've ink in my blood from way back having managed a couple of the larger school
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district's In-Plants as well as a larger Direct Mail company's press room.
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It looks like your decision to move to OSK is sound. Your apps should move
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easily while you master C.
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Might want to discuss your marketing ideas with Paul Ward or Ed Gresick. Both
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are always looking for new packages.
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Steve
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#: 11330 S1/General Interest
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10-Jul-91 22:04:16
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Sb: #11303-Apple Mac
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Fm: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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I have mentioned it to Paul Ward and he has some interest, however I cannot
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guarantee that I will reach a point that I can adequatly document or support
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another printers use of it. Also all my printing friends I have approached
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to test my system are not willing to buy the hardware. I could not run
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my shop without it and we are more efficient, give our customers faster
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and more accurate info, and make fewer mistakes than with manual systems.
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Yet I cannot be sure another shop will be able to use it as well as I can.
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Should I find someone to beta test I will have something going in the
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marketing
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direction
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#: 11335 S1/General Interest
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10-Jul-91 23:41:09
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Sb: #11303-#Apple Mac
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Hey, you're into printing! We should talk. I have a project for you, if you
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want to splurge on an MM/1.
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Compugraphic support, PCL5 libraries ....
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(drool)
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Paul ims
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11342 S1/General Interest
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11-Jul-91 07:48:10
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Sb: #11335-#Apple Mac
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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>if you want to splurge on an MM/1
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Hmmmm .... make me a deal big guy! I could be convinced. ;-)
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By the way, I've been yammering the benefits of the MM/1 to Barry Bond,
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recently. A lightning storm cooked his 68000 system recently. Last word from
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Frank Hogg (he purchased it years ago from him) was the damage was too
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extensive to repair, so he finds himself in the market.
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Might want to give him a call at 407 382-2816 and discuss his options. I'd bet
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he'd get a kick out of a call from the head guy at IMS!
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Steve
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11357 S1/General Interest
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12-Jul-91 23:29:24
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Sb: #11342-Apple Mac
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Thanks for the tip about Barry, Steve! Sorry to hear about the storm.
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Best,
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paul
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IMS
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#: 11332 S1/General Interest
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10-Jul-91 23:33:22
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Sb: #11286-#Apple Mac
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143 (X)
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If you need more that 5 serial ports, give me a call at 202 232 4246 and we can
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work out an architecture that makes sense for you. I can't wait to see your
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setup!
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In fact, we should do an appointment soon.
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Pal Paul IMS
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11421 S1/General Interest
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21-Jul-91 16:14:14
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Sb: #11332-Apple Mac
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Fm: BRUCE MOORE 70075,143
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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Does that mean you cannot connect 5 terminals to the 5 serial ports? As far as
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an appointment, you are welcome to come to my Shop and see what we do with os9.
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Also I would be interested to know of any public showings in the northern VA or
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dc areas.
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#: 11259 S1/General Interest
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01-Jul-91 02:05:39
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Sb: #Happy Birthday!
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Fm: Wendell Benedetti 72766,2605
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin,
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According to my handy-dandy computerized calendar, today is your 83rd... make
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that, your 38th birthday. Soooo, Happy Birthday, Kevin!
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Wendell
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11271 S1/General Interest
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02-Jul-91 02:38:09
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Sb: #11259-Happy Birthday!
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Wendell Benedetti 72766,2605 (X)
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Ha! Thanks! Yep, your computer was correct. Funny thing is, I spent almost
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the entire year thinking that I was already 38, for some reason. I feel like I
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got another year for free, now <grin>. Thanks again - kev
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#: 11260 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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01-Jul-91 05:38:07
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Sb: #xmode /t2
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Fm: BRUCE BAKER 73747,3137
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To: sysop (X)
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I have a 512 (brand new!) upgrade for my coco, a Slot Pack III,
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and a COCOPRO! RS232 Pak. My modem is a U.S. Robotics 1200 baud Hayes
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compatible. It all works fine with Mikeyterm. I recently DOWed BBTERM.AR and it
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won't go! I'm thinking that the XMODE parameters aren't set right (baud=?,
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type=?) for /t2. I'm booting from the Level II system master. I experimented
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with XMODE (baud, type) from the book, but couldn't get it. HELP!!!
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Bruce
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11261 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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01-Jul-91 07:52:32
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Sb: #11260-#xmode /t2
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: BRUCE BAKER 73747,3137 (X)
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Bruce,
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If you could dump the output of an xmode /t2 here so we can look at it, a few
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suggestions might pop up.
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Steve
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11326 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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10-Jul-91 01:20:40
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Sb: #11261-#xmode /t2
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Fm: BRUCE BAKER 73747,3137
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Here is the standard dump. I used the book and changed baud to 22 (I think) I
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was going for 7bits, even par. I also tried something with type= (I don't
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remember what) but nothing seemed to work. Here it is:
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-upc bsb bsl echo lf null=0 pause pag=24 bsp=08 del=18 eor=0D eof=1B
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reprint=04 dup=01 psc=17 abort=03 quit=05 bse=08 bell=07 type=00 baud=06 xon=11
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xoff=13
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If you have any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.
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Bruce
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#: 11343 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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11-Jul-91 07:54:28
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Sb: #11326-xmode /t2
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: BRUCE BAKER 73747,3137
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Bruce,
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The dump looks fairly standard with the xception of the baud rate. You might
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try coming up in 8bit mode, (baud=4) and type = to 0 and see what happens.
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With it set to 6, you're set to 9600 baud when you execute. Make the changes
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before you run the term program.
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Steve
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#: 11272 S1/General Interest
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02-Jul-91 06:51:40
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Sb: #device w/in a dr
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Fm: Keith H. March 70541,1413
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To: All
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Hello:
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A friend l
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Hen ATend of mine ask me to post this question:
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as1kn you open a device within a device driver, for ex:
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ith iy I have KEYBOARD.DR and K1.DD, can I use F$OPEN to open
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ACIAPAK.DR and T2.DD (Open T2 within KEYBOARD)
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2.DDK (Ope.
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#: 11273 S1/General Interest
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02-Jul-91 07:07:33
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Sb: #11272-device w/in a dr
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
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Keith,
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Your messages is all garbled (type RP after this one to see what I mean). Could
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you repost? Be sure to thump the <ENTER> key every 80 characters or so.
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Steve
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#: 11278 S1/General Interest
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02-Jul-91 14:22:32
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Sb: #11272-device w/in a dr
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
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Keith - if I read your message right, then the answer is yes... you can open a
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path to another device from within a device driver.
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However, don't do so within the driver's INIT routine, because the device table
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is incomplete at the time, and can get screwed up on many versions of os9/osk.
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I assume this is for a BBS thingie? - kev
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#: 11280 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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03-Jul-91 10:13:25
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Sb: Submarine uses OS-9
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: all
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Thought y'all be interested in this:
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It seems that MIT's Sea Grant Program, in the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
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Lab, uses OS-9 on a robot sub. The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab wrote the
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main software. Grad students get to work on it.
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So now you know where to go to college :-)
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More information on this later.
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#: 11281 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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03-Jul-91 19:06:29
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Sb: #multistart and path
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Fm: KENHEIST 71750,551
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To: all
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I've been using the new CC3GO that reads a file /dd/sys/shell.parameters on
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boot-up. This allows me to set path= when the startup shell dies. i.e.
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path=/dd/cmds/apps /dd/cmds/utils /dd/cmds/rs.
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The problem shows up when I run mutliview. The shell it creates doesn't
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respect PATH LIST of the parent shell and even if I open a window using the
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gshell s-key and do a path= it doesn't help.
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The $20,000 question it can it be done, how and who's got e beef.
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#: 11333 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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10-Jul-91 23:36:59
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Sb: #11281-multistart and path
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: KENHEIST 71750,551 (X)
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Hi, Ken!
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Hope you are well. Mary Kay and I think of you often, wondering how you are
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getting along. TTFN, and stay in touch.
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Best,
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Paul IMS
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#: 11282 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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03-Jul-91 19:41:04
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Sb: #gshell patch
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: all
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One last plea for help. The Gshell+ patch still won't go. Is $3F @ $0002
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right? Mine shows $FF, so Ipatch won't run. I tried the stocker and one that
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has the MacPatch,neither work. Now, not only does the new 502 have the
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head-banger bug, but so do I.
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Wistfully - Rick
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#: 11283 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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03-Jul-91 22:07:55
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Sb: #11282-#gshell patch
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick - since the length of the module is at offset 2,3... then $FF is
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definitely not right (that would be a length of $FFxx, which is huge). Change
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it back to $3F. (or whatever dir e shows it to be)
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Don't bang your head too long :-)
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#: 11291 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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04-Jul-91 20:59:26
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Sb: #11283-gshell patch
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin - Thanks for the info. Wonder how that happened with good CRC? Guess I
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should have realized offset 2 would be in the header, and looked itup, but
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my head (and heads! :-) are a little overheated from all these patches! Off
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to patch for the patch so I can use the other patch! Thanks again - Rick
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#: 11284 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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03-Jul-91 22:29:16
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Sb: #DISTO+ADAPTEC+TANDON!?!?
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Fm: Sandy Tipper 72060,76
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To: all
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I just bought an ADAPTEC 4000A controller for my DISTO 4-in-1 board to run my
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two TANDON 503 drives (SCSI controller for 15Meg MFM drives... it is supposed
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to work), but I cannot get the low-level format to work (DECB --
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"FMTADPC/BAS", modified for #cylinders/heads). It won't pass the initial drive
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select -- with any number for the drive number (0,1, or 2). Anybody else ever
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use this combo, or something similar? The drives worked FINE under my old
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XEBEC controller I got from Owlware (which doesn't work very well with the
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DISTO interface). HELP!! How should the jumpers on the ADAPTEC board be set
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(got it from a surplus place, no docs, and ADAPTEC won't support retail
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customers)?
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Sandy
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#: 11288 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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04-Jul-91 16:53:57
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Sb: #11284-DISTO+ADAPTEC+TANDON!?!?
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Fm: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754
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To: Sandy Tipper 72060,76 (X)
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Didn't know you could use MFM drives with a SCSI controller.....
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#: 11305 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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06-Jul-91 18:54:42
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Sb: #Tape drive(r) problems
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Fm: Robert Heller 71450,3432
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To: anyone
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I recently upgraded to OS-9/68K V2.4 on my Force CPU-30 and now have
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some time to fuss with the tape drive (after backing up 25Meg to 40
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floppies). With this version of the SCSI drivers, my "oddball"
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(Archive Scorpion (5945C) + Adaptec ACB3530 SCSI <=> QIC-36
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controller), seems to work. Sort of. Using the Viper driver (meant
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for Archive's QIC-150 SCSI drive) it reads QIC-24 tapes fine. What it
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writes is another matter. I did a fsave and then tried a frestore -v
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and got a message that the ident block was bad. I then tried using a
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PD tar program, but when I tried to read it, got a tar header checksum
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error and my home-grown tar clone on my other machine (Stride 440 -
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same type of drive, with Archives QIC-02 <=> QIC-36 controller board)
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also had trouble reading the tape (various errors).
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What I'd like to know: do I need to write a completly new driver for
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this combination or is there some minor thing I need to change with
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one of the existing drivers to make this work? Or is there something
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wrong with the drive or controller board? No driver errors are
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reported in any case.
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I would like to be able to use the tape for backups - using floppies
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is a pain...
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Robert
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#: 11314 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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08-Jul-91 09:11:39
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Sb: #11305-Tape drive(r) problems
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Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332
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To: Robert Heller 71450,3432 (X)
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Robert,
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Since you just bought your upgrade, you should have some free tech support
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coming from Microware (I believe 90 days). I know they support the Viper
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drives, but do not know about others. You may have to write your own driver.
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The driver for the Viper is sbviper. Good luck.
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Mark
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#: 11306 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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06-Jul-91 23:44:21
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Sb: #A Parson to Person Call
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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 have been working on converting Mike Sweet's CGFX library from C to BASIC09.
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I almost have the dialog boxes routine converted. I have figured out how to do
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radio buttons, and am now working on clickable buttons,etc. Still some bugs
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though. I will be uploading what I have developed in about 2 to 3 weeks.
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I would like to offer a suggestion. Often people develop little sub -routines
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such as these while working on larger programs. For various reasons, they
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choose not to make the source code of the entire finished program available.
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While I have no problem with this, since most ask for a small donation and then
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will offer the code to registered users, I would like all to consider being
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willing to share these subroutines, or "snippetts" of code. Perhaps a sort of
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Programmers Den or Tool Box Area.
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I think that with the RS version of the COCO discontinued, and this time of
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transition to the new machines, we need every one to support our little COCO's.
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and share code, etc. I originally bought mine to interface with a Model
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Railroad, as per a series by Bruce Chubb in Model RailRoader magazine (Feb
|
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'84-Aug '86), later reprinted as Build your Own Universal Computer Interface,
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by Tab Books.
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Next one of my altar boys gave me a copy of Rainbow. Before long, diskdrives,
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monitors, printers, etc entered my life. I bought a word processor program. And
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after trying several settled on MAX-10. I recented noticed that Rainbow had a
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COCOPRO add for a new OS9 WP. Has anyone tried it. It is called Newspaper-09.I
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will be ordering one soon. I can already think of several enhancements that I
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would like to see in it. (See MVWORD)
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With all best wishes, Jeremy, CSJW.
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#: 11339 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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10-Jul-91 23:46:13
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Sb: #11306-#A Parson to Person Call
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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jeremy,
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How are you, Brother? It was nice to meet you at the Fest.
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I would be greatly interested in seeing the Basic09 code for Sweet's GFX
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library.
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It would be great to convert it to the MM/1, and allow all those Basic
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programmers ont he MM/1 create stuff for the CoCo3.
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Best,
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Paul IMS
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#: 11347 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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11-Jul-91 20:50:09
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Sb: #11339-#A Parson to Person Call
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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It was a pleasure meeting you too, Paul. I should have the code up in a few
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weeks. I have undertaken a new ministry, working with developmentally disabled
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adults, and I do find that I return to the monastery a little too tired to
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spend as much time programming,
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but it should be soon, WIth all best wishes, Br. Jeremy, CSJW.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11358 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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12-Jul-91 23:33:16
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Sb: #11347-#A Parson to Person Call
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Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
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To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)
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Jeremy,
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I think on the rising incidence of rape, of fascist conservatism in the US, of
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intolerance, and I wonder if many of the adults we see who appear to be healthy
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are not in fact in need of ministering. We are all a little developmentally
|
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disabled, and it is often only through extensive self-deception that we make it
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through life with ego intact.
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On the other hand, facing one's weaknesses, meeting the challenge, and growing,
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make you strong. Only by admitting incompleteness can one hope to be more
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complete.
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Also, avoid wise advice such as this. The wise don't need it -- the fools won't
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heed it!
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Grin.
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Best,
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paul ims
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#: 11391 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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16-Jul-91 16:37:08
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Sb: #11358-A Parson to Person Call
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004 (X)
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It is often a thin line, often not we or them but all of us... --Jeremy.
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#: 11307 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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07-Jul-91 00:27:24
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Sb: ##11306 subroutines
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: 76477,142 (X)
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To Brother Jeremy and ALL- An excellent idea! Think I'll go cruise the
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floppies for suitable material. Mebbe we can form and area, or at least a LIB
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ext. for routines like this. The CoCo is dead, long live the CoCo!
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- Rick
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#: 11317 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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08-Jul-91 22:03:59
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Sb: #11307-#11306 subroutines
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Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Great. I'll have some code to upload soon. I think that this Sub-routine
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library could really be a good thing. Jason Bucata posted a forum message and
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some files on what is known as copylefting over on Delphi. I will try to upload
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it when I get the chance. Basically it is a plea for material to be released
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uder copyright simply so that no one can claim exclusive rights to it. There is
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talk of working out a deal for OS9 Level Two with Microware. Imagine full
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source code available. Then the patches could be posted because the code was no
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longer a "trade secret." I will try, as I said to post it in the next few days.
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Jason explains this much better than I am doing so here. I hope that this
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Programmers Library will get good response. With all best wishes. Br. Jeremy,
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CSJW.
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#: 11308 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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07-Jul-91 00:40:23
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Sb: ##11282-gshell patch
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: Kevin Darling
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Kevin - This is what I found out about the ipatch problem: The 'incorrect data
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byte @' had nothing to do with the module in question. IPatch apparently gives
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this error when 'oldfile' and 'newfile' have the same name! Don't know why, but
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the few .ipc files I've got all do the same thing, some weird value @ offset 2.
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Simple, but difficult. - Rick
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#: 11309 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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07-Jul-91 01:35:50
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Sb: #11308-##11282-gshell patch
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick - good find! That info should help out others, no doubt about it.
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So it works now? thx! - kev
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#: 11312 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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07-Jul-91 20:18:07
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Sb: #11309-#11282-gshell patch
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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Kevin - Works great! Even threw in the MacFonts so I can aggravate(sic) my
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co-worker. He still thinks a GUI with windows costs $10,000. - Rick
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#: 11310 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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07-Jul-91 08:32:23
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Sb: #STERM & OSK
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Fm: DENIS CHARTRAND 72561,2714
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To: All
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Maybe it was already discussed, but again, to what must be set the MODEM
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port for the last STERM upload for the OS9/68000?
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Thanks
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#: 11311 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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07-Jul-91 18:29:55
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Sb: #11310-#STERM & OSK
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: DENIS CHARTRAND 72561,2714 (X)
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Denis,
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I may have mis-understood your question, but proper syntax for the newest
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version of Sterm is:
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Sterm -f -l /t2
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where the -f option is the 'non-floppy' mode to allow B+ protocol, and the -l
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option is used to indicate which serial port to use.
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Sterm -? will net a nice list of new options supported.
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Steve
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#: 11371 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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14-Jul-91 08:04:45
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Sb: #11311-#STERM & OSK
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Fm: DENIS CHARTRAND 72561,2714
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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OK, now it works with "sterm -l /t1" command line.
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Before, when I used to type only "sterm /t1", the program exit almost rigth
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away and said: No MODEM port defined!
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I'm using Atari ST with OSK v2.3
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Thanks.
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#: 11381 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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15-Jul-91 07:30:10
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Sb: #11371-STERM & OSK
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: DENIS CHARTRAND 72561,2714 (X)
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Glad things are working for you. The -l option threw me for a loop as well.
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Steve
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#: 11399 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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17-Jul-91 06:09:57
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Sb: #11371-STERM & OSK
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: DENIS CHARTRAND 72561,2714 (X)
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Hi,
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If you read the docs, you'll notice you can define a modem port as an
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environment variable and then you don't have to use the -l option to start
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Sterm. This applies for OSK only. Put this in your startup file:
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setenv MODEM /t2 (or whatever port you want)
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Mark
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#: 11313 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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07-Jul-91 20:36:52
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Sb: #Smartwatch
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Fm: Ken St.Clair 71615,267
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To: all
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Can anyone tell me what I have to do to install a Tandy Smartwatch in my FD-502
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disk controller (if it can be done)? Thanks
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Ken
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#: 11349 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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11-Jul-91 23:55:30
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Sb: #11313-#Smartwatch
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Fm: Paul Rinear 73757,1413
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To: Ken St.Clair 71615,267 (X)
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This isn't hard. You unplug the Rom chip inside the disk controller and
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then remove its socket. You then solder the smartwatch in its place, plug the
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Rom into this, and solder a small jumper wire. If you can solder small IC pins
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to printed boards reliably, you can do this.
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Don't make the mistake I made: I soldered the smartwatch in place of the
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disk controller chip. It goes under the ROM chip.
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Paul
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#: 11362 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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13-Jul-91 12:04:05
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Sb: #11349-#Smartwatch
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Fm: Ken St.Clair 71615,267
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To: Paul Rinear 73757,1413 (X)
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Thanks Paul, that sounds easy enough. Where does the small jumper wire
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go? I think I can handle the rest. Thanks again
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Ken
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#: 11372 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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14-Jul-91 11:10:51
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Sb: #11362-Smartwatch
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Fm: Paul Rinear 73757,1413
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To: Ken St.Clair 71615,267 (X)
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The wire goes from the board to one of the chip pins. It's easy and comes
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with instructions.
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Paul
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#: 11315 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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08-Jul-91 20:22:10
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Sb: #Window switching
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Fm: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762
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To: All
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Is there any way to open a window and switch to it within a shell script (CoCo
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OS9)? Opening them is no problem, but I always seem to end up in the parent
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window. I have used the "type" program, which does open and switch, but if I
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use type in a shell script then follow it with a command line, the command line
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takes effect in the original window. Suggestions? Basically, I would like to
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open a type 2 window, change to /r0 in that window, and run sterm with
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parameters, all from a shell script.
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#: 11320 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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09-Jul-91 02:21:58
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Sb: #11315-Window switching
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762 (X)
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Ian, yep you sure can. Hope this does what you need:
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* script to create and select type 2 sterm window
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*
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(display 1b20 2 0 0 50 18 1 0 2 1b21 </2; sterm <>>/1&) >/w
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Here's how that works. The "(....)>/w" starts a subshell with its standard
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output pointing to a new window descriptor (and remember, scripts all begin
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with the script file itself as the standard input!). Stderr is still the
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current window, tho.
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The subshell then runs "display ...", which dwsets to stdout (the new window)
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and then selects to stdout (the new window) using the extra "</2" to make sure
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that the Select immediately works (stdin has to be the current window) from the
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script.
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Finally, Sterm is begun with its stdin/err redirected to whatever is stdout
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using "<>>/1", which is also the new window. All this must take place within
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the same subshell () because we're doing this all to one main path.
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Work it through... it's kind of fun to figure it out <grin>. - kev
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#: 11316 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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08-Jul-91 20:27:36
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Sb: #STERM 1.2
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Thanks for sending the disk, now I have a new problem. I tried loading STERM
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1.2 in memory and then typed STERM /M1. What I got was current baud = 300 and
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couldn't get anything else. I could not get a connect with CIS and couldn't
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even return to the shell without re-booting. Also all the commands are listed
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as esc + some character. I don't have an esc key. What should I use for esc.
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Thanks for the help.
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TOM
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#: 11319 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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08-Jul-91 23:31:14
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Sb: #11316-#STERM 1.2
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Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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It took me a while to get this, but here is how you do those sterm commands.
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Press and hold CTRL, and while holding it, press BREAK. This generates your
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ESCape for sterm. Now release both keys. Press the letter of the command. The
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ESCape is "sticky", which means you don't have to press all three keys at the
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same time. Do this for ESC-Q and you should return to the shell OK. Since I
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didn't see anything you posted earlier I can't diagnose exactly what's wrong.
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It seems you do it the same way I do when I use sterm.
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Now if I can just get sterm to work with my Hayes-compatible modem....
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#: 11322 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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09-Jul-91 20:20:46
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Sb: #11319-STERM 1.2
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Erich Schulman 75140,3175 (X)
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Thanks for the info.
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I'll try it and let you know how I make out. Sorry but I can't offer any advice
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on the Hayes modem, I'm using a modem pak on a coco.
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Thanks again.
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TOM
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#: 11327 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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10-Jul-91 04:49:30
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Sb: #11319-#STERM 1.2
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: Erich Schulman 75140,3175 (X)
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Erich,
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What sort of problems are you having with Sterm? You say it won't work with
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your modem. What doesn't work? Sterm itself knows nothing about and doesn't
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care about modems. All it does is open the port. If something is not working
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it is probably your serial port and/or driver. If you can give some details
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maybe we can help. Mark
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#: 11328 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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10-Jul-91 17:28:25
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Sb: #11327-#STERM 1.2
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Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
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To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)
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I had an unsuccessful thread on my sterm problems a while ago. Last I heard,
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the xmodes of /t2(?) were to blame. When I try to use my CoCoPRO! RS232 pak
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and Hayes modem (DCD line forced high) with sterm 1.2, everything just locks
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up. CIS will not recognize me when I ctrl-c; local boards don't either. The AT
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commands really don't even seem to work at all. And neither does the esc-p
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phone dialer. Let me know what xmodes or anything else you need to know and
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I'll see about sending it up.
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#: 11344 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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11-Jul-91 08:01:30
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Sb: #11328-#STERM 1.2
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Erich Schulman 75140,3175 (X)
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Erich,
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Sorry to hear you're still having trouble with sterm. Tell us, do the modem
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lights dance when you hammer onthe keyboard in sterm? (is sterm commuicating
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with the port?)
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On the off chance that I somehow gave you a patched copy of sterm 1.2 to a port
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other than /t2 (I use /t5), try calling the program and specificly indicate the
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port:
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Sterm /t2
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And by the way ... don't fret about the the dialer code. Mark yanked it in
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later versions. It never worked the way he wanted.
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Steve
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#: 11360 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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13-Jul-91 01:05:31
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Sb: #11344-STERM 1.2
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Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Nope, nothing seems to ever reach the modem. I especially suspect that
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considering no AT command does anything. I always specify a port since it
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seems to be required. Just sterm didn't work with anything (incl. the modem
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pak) when I tried that. It's been a good while, so I no longer recall exactly
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what happened.
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#: 11321 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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09-Jul-91 07:12:25
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Sb: #11316-#STERM 1.2
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom,
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Glad the diskette arrived in one piece!
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Erich has explained how to do the <ESC> sequences. A bit of finger gymnastics,
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but you'll get use to it.
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You're calling it correctly ... you should just be able to pick up the phone ad
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place a call to your local CIS number as you'd normally do. Get carrier, then
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press the modem's connect button.
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Can you give m a few more details on what exactly you're doing (step by step
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would be helpful) ad what response (if any) you get back for either the system
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or CIS.
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Steve
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#: 11323 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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09-Jul-91 20:24:03
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Sb: #11321-#STERM 1.2
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Yes it arrived in one piece. The package you sent it in kept it safe,and the
|
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boys at the post office couldn't bend it to fit in the box. I'll try the
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commands the way Erich explained and get back to you with the results. Thanks
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for all your help.
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Tom
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#: 11341 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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11-Jul-91 07:36:46
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Sb: #11323-#STERM 1.2
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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I'll pass your comments on to Richard, my shipping and receiving clerk. He
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lives to defeat the postmaster!
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Steve
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#: 11353 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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12-Jul-91 21:40:50
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Sb: #11341-#STERM 1.2
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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|
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|
Well he certainly did defeat him. Now I have a question for you, I still
|
|
haven't gotten STERM to work yet. The local RS store has come down to earth
|
|
with there coco prices and I'm buying a coco 3 tommorw. I also picked up a copy
|
|
of level 2 os9 for the coco 3 . What will it take to make it work on that? I
|
|
think I will be better off with the coco 3 so I'd like to make it work with
|
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that.
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Thanks
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|
Tom
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#: 11361 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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13-Jul-91 09:18:24
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Sb: #11353-STERM 1.2
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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|
To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom,
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You have everything you'll need to make sterm work on a CoCo 3 so keep us
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posted.
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#: 11318 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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08-Jul-91 23:15:23
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Sb: #11100-TROUBLES
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|
Fm: DAVID GUESS 72237,2244
|
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
|
|
|
|
I'LL PROBALLY TRY TO FIND A 4 IN 1 CARD SOMETIME OR ANOTHER, BUT I'M GONNA MISS
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USING MY OL' DS69, SOMETIME I NEED TO SEE WHAT THE DS69B IS LI
|
|
KE
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. LATER.
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#: 11324 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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09-Jul-91 22:02:37
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|
Sb: #DOOMED TO DESKMATE
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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|
To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
|
|
|
|
Steve,
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|
|
|
I tried to get the esc function to work and be able to use sterm, but I have
|
|
had no success. I pressed cntrl(clear) and while holding it hit break and then
|
|
tried 1 at a time every command on the list. None of them responded. I start
|
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off typing sterm/m1 and I get what appears to be a help menu with a list of
|
|
commands. The curser is at the bottom of the screen and isn't blinking. If I
|
|
try to connect with the modem nothing happens. None of the commands listed work
|
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even if I hit all 3 keys at once.
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H E L P
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|
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|
Thanks
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|
|
Tom
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#: 11325 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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09-Jul-91 22:20:05
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Sb: #11324-#DOOMED TO DESKMATE
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|
Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom- Just started using sterm myself, but here is what's happened to me so far-
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STERM won't accept anything from me without a connect. If this is always true
|
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that might explain the dead keyboard. My modempak is Y'ed in, so can't help
|
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with slot placement,etc.
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After booting deskmate, STERM won't work anymore! DM seems to do something
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wierd to the ports. If you are booting deskmate and then closing it to get a
|
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shell, try killing startup and running STERM first, that's the only way I can
|
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get mine to work.Mebbe someone can explain why this is so?
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Luck - Rick
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#: 11329 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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10-Jul-91 21:48:14
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Sb: #11325-#DOOMED TO DESKMATE
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick,
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Thanks for the info, actually I have tried two different ways, first booting
|
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deskmate and exiting to shell. Second I tried a system master disk that
|
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contains an M1 driver we created here a while back and got the same results
|
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both ways. If I understand you correctly I have to connect first and then run
|
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STERM. I'll try that and see what happens.
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|
|
Thanks again
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TOM
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#: 11346 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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11-Jul-91 20:13:15
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Sb: #11329-#DOOMED TO DESKMATE
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom- Actually, what I'm doing is booting STERM and waiting for the 'STERM is
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online at 300 baud'. At this point, it won't accept any commands, but dailing
|
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up anything gets it scooting along. Just a thought- I know all the CoCo3's with
|
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multipaks need an IRQ mod, consisting of a diode and connecting all the pin 8's
|
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together (see DIODE.TXT in Lib10). Don't know if a '2 needs this at all, but it
|
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sounds like you are basically up and running in software,so maybe hardware?
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Luck- Rick
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#: 11352 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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12-Jul-91 03:27:30
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Sb: #11346-DOOMED TO DESKMATE
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Fm: edward langenback 73510,145
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Hmmmm...... just a thought here, but have you tried forcing carrier
|
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detect on your modem high?
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#: 11355 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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12-Jul-91 21:46:45
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Sb: #11346-DOOMED TO DESKMATE
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick,
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Thanks , I'll check it out.
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TOM
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#: 11345 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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11-Jul-91 08:05:16
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Sb: #11324-#DOOMED TO DESKMATE
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom,
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A bit of diagnostics:
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Bring up sterm by typing sterm /m1 <enter>
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Depress the connect button on the modem pak. This will give the impression of
|
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having a carrier.
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Now ... try and <esc> <h>, does the the help screen repeat itself? If so ...
|
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then you're doing things right, and shold be ready to go. If not, give a shout,
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ad I'll bring sterm up on my old CoCo 1 and see if I can't duplicate your
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problems.
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Steve
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#: 11354 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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12-Jul-91 21:44:29
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Sb: #11345-DOOMED TO DESKMATE
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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|
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Steve,
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Thanks for the help.
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I'll give it a try and let you know what happens.
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TOM
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#: 11331 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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10-Jul-91 23:11:32
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Sb: #TMRDRV.TXT addendum
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Fm: PaulSeniura 76476,464
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To: all
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|
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Be on the lookout for an update to the original TMRDRV.TXT article called
|
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TMRDR2.TXT. A synopsis:
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With help from some fellow OS9ers on Delphi, I've been narrowing down the
|
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different methods that could be used in our Timer Driver. Keep in mind the
|
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need for much MUCH higher accuracy and resolution than the ol' VIRQ way, and we
|
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also need absolutely the quickest way possible to action the user program into
|
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gear when the timer does pop.
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I also need to SET STANDARDS on the SVC Number(s), GetStat/SetStat numbers, and
|
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the parameter structures. We gotta have these things acceptable and "official"
|
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with the community so people can write programs to use the 12-bit timer and to
|
|
have it behave in expected ways, not to mention a common access method.
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|
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We apparently no longer have a User Group -- we won't have an "official" body
|
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who'd normally analyze and approve of an access method used by these kinds of
|
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functions and projects. You and I are the only ones that can tandemly agree
|
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how to design and use these kinds of interfaces.
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So I need your support .. and I need it NOW, please?
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-- Thx, Paul Seniura.
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(written 07/10/91)
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#: 11340 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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11-Jul-91 00:12:01
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Sb: #11331-TMRDRV.TXT addendum
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: PaulSeniura 76476,464 (X)
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How fast do you plan for the timer to go (interrupt)?
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Ooops. I'll wait for the file. Have you written any code yet? - kev
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#: 11348 S6/Applications
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11-Jul-91 21:45:13
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Sb: Database Editor
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Fm: Art Doyle 71565,262
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To: all
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Hi!
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Do any of you have suggestions for a very usable "editor" to use with the
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"data" ASCII sequencial file that seems to be present in almost all
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conventional databases? I have been using datamaster for a rather large
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mailing list, and it is beginning to crash from overload. The loss of the
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"paradox style, on the fly" record change would hurt. How can I use an editor
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to edit Sculptor data?
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Art
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#: 11350 S1/General Interest
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12-Jul-91 01:18:43
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Sb: #FIDO echo
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Fm: DonVail 70233,2037
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To: 76703,4227 (X)
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Hello Kevin,
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We, on the FIDO echo would like your presense. I know that you use to
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visit the Falcon's Lair which noe carries the OS-9 echo. Why not drop by
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sometimes if possible.
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DonVail
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#: 11351 S1/General Interest
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12-Jul-91 03:00:15
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Sb: #11350-#FIDO echo
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: DonVail 70233,2037
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Thanks... I actually called Chicago last night just to read FIDO so that I
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could see what people were up to. If I get more time, I'll try to get back on
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sometime. Seemed like things were okay tho.
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best - kevin
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#: 11415 S1/General Interest
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20-Jul-91 15:31:47
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Sb: #11351-FIDO echo
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Fm: John Wight 76370,2100
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)
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I also would like to see you come by the FIDONET OS9 and COCO echos. I am the
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moderator of these echos, and one of the hot topics currently is forming a new
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users` group with the help of FIDONET and its members to take over where the
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old group left off. I have seen your message to Warren Hrach in another network
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on the matter. I would sure like to see you come around for advice, and to
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answer those difficult questions about OS-9, even if you don&t have the desire
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to be a large part of the new group, and I`m sure the users of the echos would
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agree. Bruce Isted has been available on the echos for quite sometime, so I
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hope to see you there, too.
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#: 11363 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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13-Jul-91 13:31:13
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Sb: #UUCP Source and a MM/1
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Fm: Keith H. March 70541,1413
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To: All
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Hi, I hope someone can help me.
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I have the Rick Addams UUCP Ver 2.0 source code.
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I would like to recompile it on my MM/1
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Do I have to edit the makefile?
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Please help me get this set up on my new computer.
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any help will be greatly appreacted <sp?>
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Thanks keith
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#: 11364 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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13-Jul-91 13:55:05
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Sb: #11363-UUCP Source and a MM/1
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
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That depends on the particular make that the makefile is written to work with.
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There was long ago a sort of primitive make, makefiles for which can, if I
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recall correctly, be recognized by the = that appear at the beginning of some
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of the lines.
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There is a freely-copyable make that is more like Unix make than Microware's
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make, and there's a make (I think freely copyable also) that was written to
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work like Microware's make.
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What it boils down to is, we'll need to see a sample of it before we could say.
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Could you post the first few lines?
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#: 11365 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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13-Jul-91 18:39:18
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Sb: #11363-UUCP Source and a MM/1
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Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
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reply 11363
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Kieth,
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I've played with Rick's UUCP package, and it's nice! BUT, you need to make
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quite a few changes to the source code to get it to compile under OSK. He used
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the _os9() 6809 routine for Get/Setstat calls which need to be changed to the
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equivalent _gs_xxx or _ss_xxx functions in OSK.
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What I did is used the preprocessor directive
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#ifdef OSK
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_gs_xxx
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#else
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...
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...
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_os9()
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#endif
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Other than that, you need to use -DOSK when compiling the thing. So, if you
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haven't done it before (Ported a program from the COCO) it will be a challenge,
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but very doable.
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I have sent E-Mail to Rick, asking for permission to port/post a new version
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that will support both OSK and 6809 OS9. SO you may want to hang on for a
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while till I get a reply. If he says "go for it", I'll post the sources here.
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Mike
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#: 11367 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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13-Jul-91 20:35:47
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Sb: #IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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I am writing this message on my new coco 3 using sterm 1.2. It works!!! Thanks
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for all your help. One more question, Which one of the terminal programs that
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you sent me do you think I should use? I am now using a coco 3, multi-pak,2
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drives and a modem pak.
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Now all I need is a rs-232 pak so I can get a faster modem.
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Thanks again.
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TOM
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#: 11374 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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14-Jul-91 15:16:56
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Sb: #11367-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom- Glad you're STERMin! Thought I'd jump on your thread and leave a few
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comments on CoCo3-
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Do you have 512K? If so, get a RAMDisk driver from Lib10. You can chd /r0 and
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start STERM with -f /m1 (or -f -l ?m1 for 1.5), and B+ downloads really fly!
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Just remember to save the RAMDisk(oops!). Word of caution- if you haven't
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upgraded
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the multipak do it right away. Semms the MPak and the '3s GIME 'fight it out'
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for control of the system buss, so even when it works, it doesn't work.
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Things could explode! I've noticed Marty Goodman made a kit to convert your
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ModemPak into a real RS-322 pak for cheap. If you're into hardware hacking at
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all, call CoCoPro for a price.(Used to be about $25).
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Welcome to 80 columns and big bootfiles - Rick
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#: 11375 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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14-Jul-91 20:10:03
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Sb: #11374-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick,
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First of all I'm at 128K, but want to upgrade to 512K soon. Second it may sound
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silly but I've heard the term alot and still don't know what it is. Could you
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tell me what is a RAMDISK? Also I would like to know more about this conversion
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for the modempak, I want to get a faster modem but need an rs-232 pak to use
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it. Hardware hacking is no problem, went to school for electronics and
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understand how that stuff works.
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Thanks for the info.
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TOM
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#: 11376 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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14-Jul-91 20:47:44
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Sb: #11375-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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A RAM disk is one that exists solely in random-access memory; it's used to keep
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stuff that wants to be accessed quickly and is either temporary, copied from a
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permanent source, or copied back to a more permanent medium (because its
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contents are forgotten as soon as you power down the system!).
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My system has a 96K RAM disk; the device is named r0. I can type "dir /r0"
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just as I can type "dir /h0", and the analogous thing will happen. I can type
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"mdir >/r0/mdir.out" and the output of "mdir" will go to a file on the RAM
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disk, named "mdir.out". See what I mean?
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#: 11383 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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15-Jul-91 21:54:15
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Sb: #11376-IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)
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Thanks for the education. I needed that.
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I will look into getting one as it sounds very useful.
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Thanks again
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Tom
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#: 11382 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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15-Jul-91 20:11:02
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Sb: #11375-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom- An expansion or the previous answer-CServ (and STERM) can use the 'B+'
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protocol,where CompuServ doesn't wait for your CoCo to check out the last block
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sent before it sends the next one. The fly in the ointment is the stock RS disk
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controller, which stops the CPU while it writes/reads the disk. SIince a
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RAMDisk is a imaginary disk drive, it doesn't use the RS controller and saves
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at the speed of RAM. Do a CTRL-ESC-Z on an xmodem download and see what all
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those HALTs do for you! The RS-232 kit I told you about converts a modempak
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into a 300-9600 baud serial port,although you lose the crappy modem. Best- Rick
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#: 11385 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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15-Jul-91 22:01:07
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Sb: #11382-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick
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Thanks for the info,
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It would appear as though I should invest in a ramdisk.
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Thanks again Tom
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#: 11386 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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15-Jul-91 22:11:24
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Sb: #11385-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Tom- Yup.. Esp. since the ones in Lib10 cost about a dollar, and the 512
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upgrade (to get some RAM to put it in) is getting cheaper daily. I'm panting
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for 1Meg myself. Will it ever end? -Rick
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#: 11393 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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16-Jul-91 20:23:55
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Sb: #11386-IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Rick Ulland 70540,3305 (X)
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Rick,
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1 meg sounds nice but I think you need the 512K to be able to use it. That was
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how I understood the ad I saw, the 1 meg upgrade required a 512K machiene to
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start with. Any way they are getting cheaper all the time and who knows mabe
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they will come out with even more. Someone has got to support these things
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since Radio Shack won't.
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Tom
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#: 11380 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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15-Jul-91 07:25:14
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Sb: #11367-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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You're using my favorite, already!
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Sterm offers the best for the least hassle on CompuServe. The only suggestion I
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could make would be to move up to the latest version (1.5) when you're ready.
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There isn't much difference in features for your application but Mark has
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improved the throughput slightly.
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There's no hurry to do so. 1.2 is a solid implementation.
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Steve
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#: 11384 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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15-Jul-91 21:58:10
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Sb: #11380-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Thanks for the advice, I think I will just try them one at a time and see waht
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happens. 1.2 seems to work very well and is fairly simple to use, one question
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How do I keep the help menu from scrolling half off the screen?
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I still haven't seen the first part of it yet as it just flys by.
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Thanks again
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Tom
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#: 11389 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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16-Jul-91 07:23:02
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Sb: #11384-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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No can do, Tom ... at least as Mark wrote it. You can redisplay the the help
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screen at any time. Just <esc><H>.
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There's also a script around here somewhere that allows you to split your
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window, write the help message to the upper, nd use the lower for your com
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session.
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I'll see what I can dig up.
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Steve
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#: 11394 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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16-Jul-91 20:26:58
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Sb: #11389-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Thanks, I'll look forward to hearing from you. Any way to print the help screen
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to a printer? That way I would have a hard copy of all the commands. Just an
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idea.
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Tom
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#: 11401 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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17-Jul-91 07:35:56
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Sb: #11394-#IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Might try: Sterm /m1 >/p or Sterm /m1 >>/p and see what happens.
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Steve
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#: 11403 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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17-Jul-91 20:51:29
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Sb: #11401-IT WORKS!!!
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Thanks, I'll try it and let you know what happens.
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Tom
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#: 11368 S6/Applications
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14-Jul-91 01:09:48
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Sb: Datamaster Blues
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Fm: Art Doyle 71565,262
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To: ALL
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Hi!
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I have one of those strange mailing list applications where only the free form
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spreadsheet data editing features of datamaster have proved adequate.
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Unfortunately, I seem to have uncovered a bug in the program which prevents
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it's use with a file of over 1000 records (24K), since it insists on crashing
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with complete window lockup. I have tried experiments with known clean files,
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and in every case, I can induce this problem when I get to the stated limits.
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Since I have tried unsuccessfully on at least three separate occasions to buy
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the latest copy of datamaster from Computerware, I am left with migration to
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another program or possibly another platform to perform my tasks. Other
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possibilities might include breaking the files up by using separate windows or
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by indexing with profile's??? sorter.
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In the past few years, I have purchased and put aside Sculptor, data-windows
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and Van der Poels mailing list program as unsuitable. Datawindows may not be
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the greatest filer out there, but it does perform this function well.
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If any of you have the newer version of datamaster (1.01), and are not in need
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of it, I would like to purchase it for full price. Alternately, if one of you
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could prevail on Mr. Paul (Serby?) to sell me a copy it would be much
|
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appreciated.
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As you have probably surmised, my copy of datamaster was not purchased. It was
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acquired ONLY after Computerware refused to sell it to me 3 times. It is the
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only piece of software which I have ever obtained in this way. Unfortunately,
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even this fact did not sway Computerware. After selling me the other programs
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to interact with this code, they blocked completion of my system.
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I don't know why Computerware became so embittered on this market, but
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hopefully time has softened Mr. Serby's stance.
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Suggestions?
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Art Doyle 817 283 8380
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#: 11369 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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14-Jul-91 07:31:10
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Sb: #Reply to #11364
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Fm: Keith H. March 70541,1413
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To: 76257,562 (X)
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This here is the makefile from the uucp package, written under level II OS9.
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The makefiles for OSK looks a little different
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ALSO: Does anyone have the source code (.a) for dEd, I miss it, as I used it
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under level II almost dayly? * * File: makefile for the UUCP package * * First
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define the global macros * * CC = the C compiler executive program * LIB
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= library(s) to include in all links in addition to clib.l * GFXLIB = library
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containing graphics commands * CC = cc2 LIB = -l=/dd/lib/sys.l -m=1k
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GFXLIB = -l=/dd/lib/cgfx.l * *CC = cc *LIB = -l=/dd/lib/cgfx.l -t -m=1k
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*GFXLIB = ODIR = /dd/cmds
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* * Trick used to make everything. Type: make all *
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all: uucico readnews rmail mail postnews expire \
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rnews uuxqt uucp uuencode uudecode fixtext
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@echo
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@echo --done-
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_FIXTEXT = fixtext.r getline.r fixline.r
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fixtext: $(_FIXTEXT)
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$(CC) -f=fixtext $(_FIXTEXT) $(LIB)
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_UUDECODE = uudecode.r
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uudecode: $(_UUDECODE)
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$(CC) -f=uudecode $(_UUDECODE) $(LIB)
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#: 11370 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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14-Jul-91 07:53:48
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Sb: #11369-Reply to #11364
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Keith H. March 70541,1413 (X)
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Hmmm...looks like a Unix-like makefile to me. (Microware's make thinks that
|
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targets without suffixes have to be executables, which does sometimes get in
|
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the way.) You should look for one of the freely-copyable makes that take that
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sort of makefile.
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#: 11373 S7/Telecommunications
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14-Jul-91 12:47:06
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Sb: Sterm
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Fm: KENHEIST 71750,551
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To: 76070,41 (X)
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Mark been using the latest Ver. of Sterm amnd have one problem. When I download
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and it opens the overlay window its OK but it nt kill the window when its done
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, the curser jumps back to the main screen below the window and the window must
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roll off the screen to clear.
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I'm using a COCOIII w/ 512k DCII w/ 4n1 and 1200 ba Avetex running on a 150
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watt IBM pwr. supply. Yes even the 4n1 is running on the 150w through a lm317
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volts reg. set to 9v. and pwr'ed off the 12 volt line. P.S.
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How about a stand alone B-Plus module that will work with my WizPro? I know
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you like sterm and its ok but wizpro has a lot of features and I miss being
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able to run CIS th it except as a boot for sterm.
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#: 11377 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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14-Jul-91 21:34:19
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Sb: #10970-King Quest, Laser Surg.
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Fm: geo 76120,3535
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To: Rod Motto 73247,424
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I run Kings Quest from hard disk.. edit the toc.txt file and only change the
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the disk # to 1 and the side # to 1 for all the volumns and then run the toxgen
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utility to creat the new toc file.
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Hope this helps
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#: 11388 S15/Hot Topics
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15-Jul-91 23:59:19
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Sb: Upload
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Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317
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To: [F] sysop (X)
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Hi I uploaded a file to dl15 on the Tiger/TC9. Did you get it? Could you post
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it?
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Thanks Frank
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#: 11395 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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16-Jul-91 20:29:24
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Sb: STERM
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Fm: Rick Ulland 70540,3305
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To: ALL
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Has anyone got STERM 1.5 up from a Multi-Vue icon? Mine looks like: sterm -l
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/m1
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....
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To a type 7 window.All I get for the trouble is a pink screen with a large
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white block in the upper left. Puzzle since pink isn't even in the palette! I
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can start a shell (type 7),clear over, and run it just fine from there, with
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the inherited directories,same boot,same parameters,etc.What gives?
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Rick
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#: 11397 S1/General Interest
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16-Jul-91 23:06:53
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Sb: Upload
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Fm: Frank Hogg of FHL 70310,317
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To: sysop (X)
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OK took 3 tried but I beleave I got it.
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Thanks Wayne
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Frank
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#: 11402 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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17-Jul-91 07:51:55
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Sb: #local help
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)
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Ed,
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I met with Allan Browning yesterday and got him set up with a copy of dEd. He
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was sure appreciative of your help and pointing him my way.
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Sounds like he's got a dandy problem on his hands!
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11407 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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19-Jul-91 03:48:16
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Sb: #11402-#local help
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Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Thanks for helping him out. It sure is nice knowing there are knowledgeable
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people scattered around the country/world that we can refer people to when
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they have problems. BTW, did you suggest he join CIS?
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Ed Gresick - DELMAR CO
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11413 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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20-Jul-91 08:33:49
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Sb: #11407-local help
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)
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I mentioned my involvement, but didn't push too hard.
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Hope he gets his problems solved ... and you get the sale!
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Steve
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#: 11404 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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18-Jul-91 19:46:45
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Sb: #Sterm 1.2
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Sterm /M1 >/P works , it gives a nice printout of the entire help page.
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Thanks for the help.
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Tom
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11414 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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20-Jul-91 08:35:08
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Sb: #11404-#Sterm 1.2
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: thomas aubin 70540,1666 (X)
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Thanks for the feed back, Tom. Nice thing about OS9 is the ability to direct
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and redirect input, output and standard error lines.
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Steve
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11419 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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20-Jul-91 21:29:58
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Sb: #11414-Sterm 1.2
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Fm: thomas aubin 70540,1666
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Steve,
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Sterm works well and I like using it however there is one feature that is
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missing. My deskmate telecomm program allows you to send ID and Password using
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only 2 keys. I wonder is there any way to add this to Sterm?
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Also I agree with you on os9, being able to redirect inputs and outputs is
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nice.
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I still haven't finished reading the manual for level 2 yet but I'm finding out
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new things about this system all the time.
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Catch you later,
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Tom
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#: 11405 S1/General Interest
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18-Jul-91 21:44:01
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Sb: OSK MultiMedia Job
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Fm: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565
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To: all
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Interested in a job using OS-9/68000?
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A MultiMedia company is looking for OS9 System Software Engineers to work with
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CD-I. Must have an interest in Video and Graphics Programming. If interested
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please call Mark Tokay ASAP at (704) 652-1801 for more information.
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Please tell him that you heard about this on Compuserve in a message posted by
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James Truesdale.
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Good Luck!
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-J
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#: 11406 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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19-Jul-91 03:17:38
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Sb: #GIME Chip
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Fm: George Hendrickson 71071,2003
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To: all
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I was wondering what Rainbow has the article in it about the GIME chip. I've
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been having trouble with my CoCo3 just stopping and printing garbage on the
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screen. It seems I read an article in Rainbow about the GIME chip needing
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upgraded or to that effect. I need to read it again and see what I need to do.
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Any help will be appreciated...
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11408 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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19-Jul-91 11:32:04
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Sb: #11406-GIME Chip
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Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
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To: George Hendrickson 71071,2003
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From what I've heard on the CoCo Forum, the gime chip is probably loose. Open
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your CoCo if it is no longer under warranty and push the chip firmly back into
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its socket. Be sure you ground yourself (Radio Shack's antistatic wrist strap
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is fine--attach the clip to the RF out jack). To find the gime chip, the CoCo
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Forum has a graphic called INSID.PIX or something like that which will show you
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about where it is.
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#: 11409 S1/General Interest
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19-Jul-91 15:50:30
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Sb: #User Interface Util
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Fm: Semi-Gas Systems 76047,151
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To: All
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Hi,
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I'm new to this forum (and compuserve in general!) and would appreciate any
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help y'all can offer. I'm looking for utilities that deal with user interface
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management. I quickly perused the libraries section but didn't see anything
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off hand. Can anyone point me to a specific area in Libraries that I should be
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looking at? Also, on a related note, how does one obtain a summary of the
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available files? Is there some sort of READ.ME doc somewhere?
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Thanks in advance!
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11410 S1/General Interest
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19-Jul-91 17:29:31
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Sb: #11409-User Interface Util
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Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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To: Semi-Gas Systems 76047,151
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Hi! First, I guess we need to know what flavor of OS-9 you're using... the
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6809 or the 680x0 version? Perhaps even what kind of system, in case someone
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else has one (unless you're making your own, of course).
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You might also want to change you forum name to your own name, instead of using
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a company name (or use both, if possible). Use the OPTions menu to do that.
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Some of the libraries have summary files, but I find it easiest to just go to
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each library and capture the output of a "sca/sho" command... which gives
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names, dates, size and a one-line comment.
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Again, welcome! best - kevin
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#: 11411 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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19-Jul-91 21:09:16
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Sb: #forks and pipes
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: all
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I'm having a weird problem with pipes and forks (sounds like a dinner...).
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Here's the deal:
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1. Process1 opens a pipe,
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2. '1' starts process2 (a filter of some kind),
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3. '1' sends a bunch of data down the pipeline,
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4. '1' closes the pipe and waits for the child (process2) to end.
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All this works fine if the program forks process2 directly. However, if I fork
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'shell' with process2 as a param things hang up. The stuff I send down the
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pipeline gets processed okay; but the child(ren) never die. I suppose I could
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just forget about using the shell, but it'll take care of setting up the
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command line for me which I'd have to do otherwise. Besided, it's really
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bugging me.
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This is all in C on OSK using os9exec() with fork().
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I suspect that I have to terminate or wakeup someone with a signal. Not sure
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who or what. Any suggestions?
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11412 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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19-Jul-91 22:57:04
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Sb: #11411-#forks and pipes
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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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Can I assume that you add a "&" on the shell line forking the child? Hmm. I
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guess you must or your parent program wouldn't continue operation until the
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child died.
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I would think that when the parent closes the pipe, the child should die,
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assuming the child dies when it detects the read error (or eof? not sure) on
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the pipe. Hmm. Got a tiny example code which would fit up here?
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- kev
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There are 2 Replies.
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#: 11417 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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20-Jul-91 21:09:29
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Sb: #11412-forks and pipes
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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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Here's a bit of code. Remember, this is 'C' -- but since it just calls the
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system F$Fork even die-hard assembler types like you should be able to help
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<grin>:
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First off, a bit of the section which starts the pipeline:
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char *argv[MAXARGS];
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FILE *out_file;
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int childnum, pipe, oldin, oldout, os9fork();
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extern char **environ;
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if((pipe=open("/pipe",S_IREAD+S_IWRITE))<0)
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terminate("Unable to open '/pipe'");;
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oldin=dup(0); /* save current stdin/out */
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oldout=dup(1);
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close(0); /* set stdin to new pipe file */
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dup(pipe);
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close(1); /* set stdout to current output file */
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dup(fileno(out_file));
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argv[0]="shell";
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argv[1]=newprog;
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argv[2]=0;
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childnum=os9exec(os9fork,argv[0],argv,environ,0,0);
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close(0); /* restore original stdin */
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dup (oldin);
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close(oldin);
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close(1); /* restore original stdout */
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dup (oldout);
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close(oldout);
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if(childnum<0){ /* fork failure, close the pipe file */
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childnum=0;
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close(pipe);
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terminate("Unable to fork pipe process");
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}
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else{
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fclose(out_file); /* close old output file */
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out_file=fdopen(pipe,"w"); /* set to pipefile */
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}
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And here is the snippet which gives the problem.
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fclose(out_file); /* close down the pipeline */
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/* wait for a pipe process to finish it's thing... */
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if(childnum){
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wait(0);
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childnum=0;
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}
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Continued next message.
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#: 11418 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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20-Jul-91 21:10:08
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Sb: #11412-#forks and pipes
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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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Continued...
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I can get the code in the last section to work perfectly simply by changing the
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argrument list to:
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argv[0]=newprog;
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argv[1]=0;
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When this is done 'newprog' is forked directly (and runs concurrently) with its
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stdin/out redirected as needed. Then when its input is closed it nicely dies.
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However, as written, there is a shell in between my main process and the child.
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In this case the closing of the pipeline just causes things to hang forever.
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Well, not forever -- if I hit CTRL-E the shell(?) dies along with the child and
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things continue on as needed. I suppose I could send a terminate signal, but am
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I guaranteed that the child will have finished if I do that? The reason for
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using shell as an intermediary is that I don't want to have to rewrite the
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parseing code to break up arguments (under OSK the shell, not cstart breaks up
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the command line into null-terminated strings) and do redirection.
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Help.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 11422 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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21-Jul-91 17:35:20
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Sb: #11418-forks and pipes
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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Bob -
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A) Is it that the children never die, _or_ that the parent (actually
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GRANDPARENT) never get a death notification? If this is the case, it's because
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Shell breaks the parent/child lineage, and the child would have noone to report
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to if the Shell goes away.
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B) Have you tried the 'popen()' call? (if 6809)... If not, that's what you
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probably want. Mirrors Unix 'popen()' exactly.. i.e.:
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int path;
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path = popen("procs", "r"); /* fork a 'procs' command; read its output */
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.....
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pclose(path);
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Actually - I can't remember if popen is high level (fgets, etc.) or lower
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level... I think now that it's HIGH level...
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In any case, there should be a code fragment around that implements popen() in
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LIB 3 if you're running 68K and haven't got it in the library.
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Pete
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#: 11423 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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21-Jul-91 17:50:31
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Sb: updated kernel patch
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Fm: Bruce Isted 76625,2273
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To: All
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|
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Hi All,
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This message is to announce the release of the updated F$PrsNam and memory
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check kernel patch ARchive. Look for "krnl.ar" in the CoCo OS-9 library.
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Bruce
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Press <CR> !> |