[Coco] Silly question

Christopher R. Hawks chawks at dls.net
Sat Dec 21 23:19:52 EST 2013


On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:23:07 -0500 (EST)
Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> Sorry Chris, I misread your message. It comes from trying to answer
> email in a hurry in the midst of an inspired programming moment with
> 5 text editors open with sources LOL But the main point I was making
> in the beginning was for Bill to read the docs and he'd know the
> differences. If he's using any distro from a quite few years back
> until now, then he's most likely using 2.2a.

	No problem. You're a much better explainer than I am. (Even I
understood your explanation better than mine.)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sat, Dec 21, 2013 6:47 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Silly question
> 
> 
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:56:17 -0500 (EST)
> Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Christopher, The "Shell_21" IS on the distro disks in the CMDS dir
> > (just checked latest distro) and is labeled as such (though not
> > used). Shell 2.1 is NOT the standard MW shell from the original
> > OS-9. It was a mod fone in 1988 by Ron Lammardo of the the first
> > Shell+. Oddly, the MW shell is not included in the distro. It may
> > not even work with NitrOS-9 ??? And yes... the "Shell" included
> > (and used) with the distro is Shell 2.2a which was a fix by L.
> > Curtis Boyle to Shell+ 2.2 in 1994. (correct me if I'm wrong
> > Curtis, just going by your docs :-)
> 
> Thank you Bill for once again repeating EXACTLY what I said. (And not
> quoting my text.)
> 
> 
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft




Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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