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90192 3-OCT 00:18 General Information
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RE: ATLANTA FEST (Re: Msg 90191)
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From: CHARLESAM To: DSRTFOX (NR)
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Geez Frank, what kept you? You live right around the corner if I'm not
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mistaken. I reformatted my Hard drive already. Now I have to reload it.
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I'll never know how much material I lost. At least my HD is back in action.
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Now I just have to install the second drive. The fest was fun and I met
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some real good folks there(in person). I'll do it again if it happens next
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year, and I believe it will. Later Charlie
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90193 3-OCT 04:30 OSK Applications
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RE: Problems with XY/Z (Re: Msg 90174)
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From: EDELMAR To: TIMKIENTZLE (NR)
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Tim,
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Haven't had a chance to really exercise your new versions of XY and Z.
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Don't expect to get to them for a couple of weeks.
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I did try to download your new TEX stuff. First attempt was at 14400.
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Got 2,143,232 bytes of the latex_tar.gz file and then error'd out. Time was
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1 hr 11 minutes. Wasn't able to successfully download the 2 files following.
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This morning I logged in at 9600 and was able to successfully download
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latex_tar.gz, tar and gzip using XY. Time for latex_tar.gz was 1 hr 13
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minutes. Works out to about 5158 baud.
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Ed
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90196 3-OCT 18:57 OSK Applications
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RE: Problems with XY/Z (Re: Msg 90174)
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From: MITHELEN To: TIMKIENTZLE (NR)
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I've used xyz a few times...So far, I can't recall any perticular problems
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in the transfer part, alhough, I have noticed, that if frorked from
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a shell (<ESC>S) in sterm, and you are at the bottem of the screen when you
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start it, it will whipe out the transfer stats line when it finishes (ie. you
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need to put in an extra CR or two to scroll the screen after it is done..)
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Paul
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90197 3-OCT 19:09 OSK Applications
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RE: Problems with XY/Z (Re: Msg 90174)
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From: JOHNBAER To: TIMKIENTZLE (NR)
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Tim,
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Been using the Ymodem-G side to download from a doz BBS
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that's local to me.. Works every time. It does do some
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hand shacking first, then down comes the files.
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Will get back to you later after I do some uploading
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and see how that goes Tim.
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Haven't tryed the x/ymodem yet, as I saw your interest
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in the ymodem-g side of it. So far so good<g>.
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John -
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< Posted with Ved 2.3.1 & IX 1.2.0 >
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End of Thread.
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90194 3-OCT 05:30 OSK Applications
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RE: New Tex Upload (Re: Msg 90173)
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From: EDELMAR To: TIMKIENTZLE (NR)
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Tim,
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> Oops. Yeah, you should create /dd/sys/tex/fonts/tfm/new, ...
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Found that one the hard way. Another caveat - the directories created
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under 'tar' did not have their execution bits set. I used the version of
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tar you provided. Couldn't load the required programs when running the
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'install.script'. Once the 'e' attributes were set, everything went fine.
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Ran 'sample' and 'short' through to my laser printer (has post script) -
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print out was fine. 'story' is missing something. When runing 'latex story.
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tex', it comes up with '! Undefined control sequence' (and more).
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From your docs, I gather you've been working with TEX, fonts, etc. for quite
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a while and perhaps you can help me. Is info available for extracting
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Adobe fonts? What kind of license do they require? How about the TEX fonts?
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I've talked to AGFA, Bitstream and Linotype - they want anywhere from
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$20,000 to $35,000 for a license. I wasn't able to get through to the
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right people at Adobe Systems. Need is two-fold - first for G-WINDOWS and
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secondly, for the FAX program I writing.
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From my investigation, I gather that most type faces are not copyrighted
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but font names are as are the methods of storing and extracting. I haven't
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talked to my attorney about this yet but do you have any info on this?
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Ed
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90195 3-OCT 18:51 General Information
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RE: Atlfest (Re: Msg 90168)
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From: MITHELEN To: RICKULAND (NR)
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Welp,,, I just woke up (well, about 40 minutes ago), after my 14 hour drive
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back from Atlanta. You presence was truely missed Rick... Fortunately, I talked
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Scott G. into rideing back with me, instead of useing the plane ticket he
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already bought, otherwise, I would not have survived the trip, because, the
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other two car loads of people from Chicago decided to stay another night...
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As usual, the Fest was a great deal of Fun... And I ended up missing most
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of the szemimars again (I did get to see the tail end of Kevin Darlings
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seminar) At least I FIANLLY got to see the Stone Mountain Laser show this
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year... For those that have never been to an Atlanta Fest. Hope that
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they have one next year so you have an excuse to go down to see this Laser
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Show!.. it is truely a spetacular event, and qworth ever penny of the 5$
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parking fee.
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I actually bought some software this year! Gold Runner 2000! What an EXCELLENT
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new varation of an old classic... This is a MUST buy program for every MM/1
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owner!
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It was also verty cool to see a CDi machine actually running an OS-9 shell,
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and playing around to see what was REALLY on the CDi disks...
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Welp, I got to eat "breakfast", and go to work... I'll let someone else fill
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in nore details....
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Paul
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90198 3-OCT 22:37 Programmers Den
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blobstopper
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From: WDTV5 To: ALL
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Hi all, got one fur ya thats got me a bit puzzled. I grabbed the file
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blobstop_v10.ar from chestnut last nite, a file which purports to be
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the actual, we've been looking for it for 8 years now, blob killer.
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Well, after splitting up the kernel and applying the patches to both
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Boot and the disto cc3disk, I attempted to use "merge" to re-assemble
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it. 7 flippin times! Each and every time, the os9p1 was trashed for
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about 50 bytes starting at offset $D3F into the kernel file it made.
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I screwed around for a couple of hours with it. Finally, in desperation,
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I made the new kernel with "cpa" one file at a time for all 5 files
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that are generated by my own vfy ed 11. That one vfy'd ok, and its
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working right now.
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Has anyone else ever had such a problem with merge? Edition 5, crc=6AD7A5
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Just curious, its never done anything like that before, but it was
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absolutely consistent in where it messed up the output file this
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one time. 6 times that is.
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Gene, WDTV5@delphi.com
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90199 3-OCT 23:32 General Information
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UUCPbb 2.1 Announcement
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From: BOISY To: ALL
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UUCPbb v2.1 has been uploaded to the /incoming directory on
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chestnut.cs.wisc.edu. Shortly, it will be move to its permanent directory.
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Due to differences in compression between the OS-9/68K and OS-9/6809 version
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of LHA, we have decided to use the lowest common denominator for archiving.
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Since OS-9/6809 LHA 2.11b and OS-9/68K LHA 2.01 generate compatible archive
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files, these are the archivers that were used for this package. For this
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reason, OS-9/68K should use LHA 2.01 dearchive these files.
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All the archives were created with LHA 2.11b. To burst the archives under
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OS-9/6809 you will either need LHA211 or UNLZH7. Both are available on
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chestnut.cs.wisc.edu and Delphi.
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UUCPbb v2.0 made its debut back in April. This update fixes most, I hope,
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of the bugs reported to me since then. This includes the mutant RNEWS which
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got itself into v2.0. Thanks to Brad Spencer, RNEWS was completely rewritten
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making it a lot faster and more reliable. The package is now completely user
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configurable. The only hard-coded directory is /DD/SYS/UUCP.
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What UUCPbb is NOT
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UUCPbb allows you to run a UUCP node on your OS-9 system. UUCPbb is NOT a
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terminal program. UUCPbb is not a BBS program; although it could be
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interfaced with one. UUCPbb will NOT connect you to the Internet. You can
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make use of some systems which are on Internet and provide access via e-mail,
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but you will not be on the Internet. So, sorry, no FTP or SLIP. These are
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not part of UUCP. (There are FTP mailservers on the net, so you still have
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indirect access to FTP sites.)
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So what the heck is it?
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UCPbb is an update of the UUCP software Rick Adams wrote a few years ago for
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the Tandy Color Computer 3 running OS-9 Level 2. It gives you a way to hook
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your CoCo or OSK machine to the world UUCP network for exchanging email, news
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and files. The original software has been extensively rewritten with many new
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features added. It was ported to OS-9/68K; although not to OS-9000--yet. ;-)
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The features include:
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* Calling multiple systems from a single command line
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* Ability to process mail after each call, after all call (when calling
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more than one system), or not until a later time.
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* Retrying a call every few minutes if the initial call fails
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* Improved logging of call progress and error messages.
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* Tested with UUCPs on DEC Ultrix, Taylor (GNU), UUPC (MS-DOS), whatever
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UUNET Technologies uses, HoneyDanBer, and itself.
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* Improved mailer with lots more features. In addition, Jeff Shepler's
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Elm-like mailer, Palm, is has been ported.
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* Software to let you read and send Usenet news.
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* Mini-listserver written and donated Rick. (Thanks Rick!)
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Now you, too, can be a fileserver! :-)
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* Utilities to do UUCP administrative chores.
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How much does it cost?
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Zilch...nada...nothing! Thanks to Rick, UUCPbb is released as free software
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under the GNU General Public License.
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Where do I get it?
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The official site for this and all updates will be the OS-9 archive site on
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the Internet. Right now, this chestnut.cs.wisc.edu. It will also be posted
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to Delphi, Compuserv and various landline BBS. Official updates will always
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show up on chestnut first. It will probably be on the OS-9 mirror archive
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site, wuarchive, after a short while.
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What do I need?
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For OS-9/6809, a 512K (128K may work but it hasn't been tested) CoCo 3 running
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OS-9 Level 2, with a hard drive. Floppies may work, but it will be painfully
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slow (I know ran it on 720K *halting* floppy controller system!) a C compiler
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if you will be compiling the source yourself. Or you can get the "add water
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and stir" executables.
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For OSK, you need any OSK machine with either Microware's Ultra C or C
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compiler ver3.2. I received one report that GCC was also used to successfully
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compile the code.
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You need the following files in order to compile and run this software:
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uucpbb21.lzh -the source code
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uub21doc.lzh -documentation and miscellaneous files
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Not required but a good idea for OS-9/6809:
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clib1990.lzh -this is the 1990 edition of Carl Kreider's CLIB
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cc250.lzh -latest replacement of Carl Kreider's C compiler executive
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The "add water and stir" version for either OSK or the CoCo is a second
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option. Unfortunately, these executable files are rather large. Sorry, there
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is no real way to crunch them down significantly.
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The CoCo executables were compiled both with and without termcap support. The
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OSK execuatables were compiled only with termcap support.
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For OSK, you need the file:
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uub21osk.lzh -executable modules for OS-9/68K
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For the CoCo, you can choose between two files:
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uub21os91.lzh -executable modules for OS-9/6809 with a 6809
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uub21os92.lzh -executable modules for OS-9/6809 with a 6309
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If you opt for the executable files, you will also need the docs archive.
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Questions, comments, suggests and bug reports can be sent by e-mail to me.
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Share and enjoy! More is on its way! ;-)
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Bob <bob@kc2wz.bubble.org>
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