[Coco] OS9Exec (OT?)

[Bob Devries]

Hi Aaron,

I don't seem to be able to get past the error 216.

I typed SET OS9CMDS=CMDS

My current directory is the one where the CMDS directory is. All the OS9 68k 
binaries are in that CMDS directory (from an MM/1 distribution disk).

I don't have a disk image to try either (at least not here with me; I'm in 
the wrong hemisphere now).

Regards, Bob Devries


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS9Exec (OT?)


>I just tried it out, pretty interesting.  Is there an easy way to get
> an image of a working os9-68k system?  (without having such a system
> :)
>
> I was able to run a couple of the shells from rtsi.  without any
> commands and missing most directories, its not much fun but certainly
> works.  with a proper system it could be very nice.
>
> It seems you must set the environment variable "OS9CMDS" to the place
> you have your shell or other application.  This allowed me to get past
> the216 and actually run some shells.
> Still a long way from a working system, but I'm going to play some more.
>
> On Windows at least, and in my very limited testing, the path set in
> the environment variable also needs to be relative to the location of
> "os9app.exe", doesn't seem to want to parse drive letters at all,
> probably because its more of a unix/mac thing.    for instance I have
> os9app.exe in E:\os9.  setting OS9CMDS to E:\cmds did not work,
> setting it to E:\os9\cmds did not work, but setting it to just "cmds"
> does work fine.  (combined with putting the binaries in a directory
> called cmds under the place os9app.exe lives).
>
> hope that helps
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone here have experience using the OS9Exec programme for
>> Windows/Mac/Linux?
>>
>> For those who have not heard of it, it's an OS9/68000 emulator based on 
>> the
>> core from UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator).
>>
>> I have it installed, but it only returns ERROR 216. Even if I tell it the
>> path to the shell, it gives that error. Sadly, the documentation is 
>> rather
>> sparse. There are some html files in the CVS, but nothing very 
>> definitive.
>>
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>>
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>> Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975
>>
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