[Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from script

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

now I'm trying to use:

path=/dd/cmds /d0/cmds /d1/cmds

but it wont work because anything you set inside a script is valid only for
that session. You need to type it by hand what is awful. I want to use that
in my startup script

I just wnat to be able to put a disk on drive 0 or 1 and run a program
without having to change CHX or PATH everytime. This is so frustating...


Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thursday 02 April 2015 13:02:30 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> > I tried :
> >
> > PWD > var.0
> >
> > with no avail
> >
> > Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>
> I am not sure if that is the correct syntax, and its been 2 decades or so
> since I last used it, and nothing like it currently exists in my startup
> scripts.  Docs on shellplus would be more helpful that I iin this case
> where you need it yesterday.
>
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 12:28:01 Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Well, starting a program and for it to determine where it is I do
> > > > in my archive program and doing that is just not simple. Perhaps
> > > > there is a more elegant way to do it.
> > > >
> > > > PWD and PXD we do have. But will they help?
> > >
> > > The output of those programs can be redirected to a shell var.  That
> > > would appear to be step one in such a script.
> > >
> > > > I need to think a while on this, it takes some time for my mine to
> > > > work on things two (2) decades in the past.
> > >
> > > Yes, there is that too. :(
> > >
> > > > That was one of the first programs I wrote for OS-9 so I may have
> > > > missed an easier way.
> > > >
> > > > I did program called "Filldisk" and used it to set up all my boot
> > > > disks and others to have the CMDS directory in the same location
> > > > allowing disks to be swapped and programs run without the usually
> > > > needed CHX.
> > > >
> > > > VDIR loads the files / folders in the current folder into the
> > > > second ShellPlus variable set.
> > > >
> > > > I am unsure if it will help.
> > > >
> > > > SHF
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> > > > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
> > > > <coco at maltedmedia.com> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 6:44 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from
> > > > script
> > > >
> > > > >I want to make a disk that will have a RUN script in its root
> > > > > that will run the /dX/cmds/program, no matter if you put the
> > > > > disk in /d0, /d1 or even just copied anywhere in the /dd hard
> > > > > drive.
> > > > >
> > > > > In other words, a script that will get the current path and
> > > > > execute the relative executable in the ./CMDS/ folder. Is that
> > > > > possible ? I don't want to force the user to type CHX /d0/cmds
> > > > > or have to type the drive. I just want this:
> > > > >
> > > > > cd /d0
> > > > > RUN
> > > > >
> > > > > that's it. Is it ppossible ? How do I copy the current path to a
> > > > > variable ?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Plus
> > > > > Luis Felipe Antoniosi
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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