[Coco] Nitros9 and Smartwatch
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Sat Dec 10 15:54:38 EST 2016
To add to Bill's comments, the NitrOS-9 WIKI is at
https://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/wiki/Main_Page/
There are some differences between OS-9 and NitrOS-9 which are minor but
confusing. Many of the commands can take parameters and some have been changed.
For example, in OS-9 the command dir can have two parameters: x display current
execution directory, e display full description of each file. However, in
NitrOS-9 these parameters now require the - sign: dir -x or dir -e .
As it happens, the built in Help function indicates the syntax for dir.
help dir
and you will get
Syntax: Dir [<opts>] [<path>]
Usage : Displays formatted list of file names in a directory
Opts :
-e = extended dir
-x = execution dir
Unfortunately not all commands or programs are included in Help but you could
edit the SYS/helpmsg file to include new command/program names. Also some
programs have their own built-in help messages. Unfortunately many of these have
been turned off in the current NitrOS-9 build. You could edit the source code to
turn on the built-in help and recompile the programs.
Robert
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