[Coco] toolshed os9 copy question

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

Control+E shoud work as break, try it.


On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 20 April 2013 23:57:21 Retro Canada did opine:
>
> > Gene why you make things so complicated?
> >
> I'm not trying to intentionally.
>
> > defsfile should be on the same directory you are, like cd /dd/defs
> > before and them minted defsfile
> Ahh, but the defsfile is not in the defs directory, its in the root of the
> zip, so I left it there, and I was cd'd to the directory I had copied it
> all to.  The defsfile was right in front of me visible with a dir command.
> >
> > have no idea what key is mapped to break, the END key maybe?
>
> Probably the one key I didn't try. :)  And the 2nd time must be a charm, I
> am looking at the defsfile.  But after 5 minutes of playing, its clear that
> there needs to be some sort of a translation between the pc keyboard and
> minted.  I suspect it works just fine from the coco's own keyboard but I
> was hoping I had found something that would let me edit a file, on the
> coco, while logged into it from this chair.  FWIW, esc or end or esc+end
> does nothing.  The arrow keys work as expected, page up/down by either
> method is not ignored but is treated like the arrow keys.  The crtl+o
> brings up the help screen but no way to exit it, ctl+s does a screen redraw
> after a short delay which I assume indicates the file has been rewritten.
> I did hit a combo that aborted it, and that shell is lost till I reboot I
> think.  Proc from another shell says its process 10 and suspended, and a
> kill 10 does nothing.
>
> All in all I expect it will work just fine from the coco's keyboard, but
> not from this one. It certainly looks fine on a dw Z screen.
>
> Thank you Lius.
>
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On 2013-04-20, at 10:43 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 20 April 2013 22:20:57 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) did
> opine:
> > >> https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/minted
> > >>
> > >> there is a direct link in the page
> > >
> > > Got it, unpacked it, moved the files to the /x1 virtual drive file,
> > > copied the MinTED file to /dd/cmds from there, then, while cd'd to
> > > /x1/MinTED-103, I tried to use it to look at the defsfile I can see
> > > with the dir command.
> > >
> > > Does this not run on a level2 system?  I'm getting an error 216,
> > > pathname not found for a "minted defsfileENTER"
> > >
> > > Some progress, I had forgotten that zip does not preserve file
> > > attributes & had to make it executable.  Did that, cd'd back to the
> > > /x1/MinTED dir, and again tried to load the defsfile, but this time
> > > its FILE NOT FOUND - PRESS BREAK and screen Z2 is frozen. I have not
> > > a clue what key on this Logitech K360 wireless keyboard might be a
> > > "break" key as I've not used the DW Z screens all that much. Did a
> > > proc on the Z1 screen & killed 10 brought Z2 back to life by killing
> > > MinTED.
> > >
> > > So, what's next, Luis?
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene
> >
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