[Coco] ShellPlus, may it rest in peace. Was: Nitros9/Scripts question

[Bill Pierce]

Shell 2.1 is still on the repo disks (labeled as shell_21). The shell "used" for booting is 2.2a
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Dec 10, 2014 12:10 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] ShellPlus, may it rest in peace. Was: Nitros9/Scripts question


On Wednesday 10 December 2014 02:28:36 Stephen H. Fischer did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Hi,
> 
> Take a look at "VDIR" which I wrote and uploaded to Delphi and was
> transferred to RTSI.
> 
>  ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/APPS/VDir.lzh
> 
> VDir.LZH is also on my webpage http://home.mindspring.com/~sfischer1/
> 
> ShellPlus which was a great and wonderful piece of work for OS-9
> appears to be not well known at all today.
> 
> The version on NitrOS-9 is broken in a serious way but a careful
> reading of the ShellPlus 2.1 Documentation will show that much
> remains.
> 
> ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/APPS/ShellPlus_2_1.lzh
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> 88/10/12 19:42                      Shell+ V2.1                      
> Page 001
> 
> 
> 
>                    Hacked Shell+ v2.1 Documentation
>                        For L-II CoCo-3 Only
> 
>                        By: Ron Lammardo
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> Parts of ShellPlus are not in NitrOS-9 at all and the patches to
> correct the defaults taken are not provided.
> 
> For some of what OS-9 ShellPlus offered are shown in my thread:
> 
> http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=89
> 
> It really is a shame NitrOS-9 ShellPlus is not used like I did so many
> years ago as the authors intended.
> 
> I and Gene found a horrible bug at the same time years ago.
> 
> My memory is still fresh about how to use the power of ShellPlus.
> 
> SHF

Has the original truly disappeared into the sand of time?  Perhaps Ron 
Lammardo might still have a copy of the original?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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