[Coco] wdir command?

Sean badfrog at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 00:23:26 EST 2016


I haven't run OS-9 in many, many years, but could it have been a part of
the GShell+ add on?  Somehow it kind of rings a bell.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:36 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
wrote:

> I don’t remember if Wdir came with it, but Bill is correct in that we
> received a portion of the Level II upgrade by accident with our TC-9’s (but
> far from complete). We disassembled (as Bills said) several of the modules
> (since we were tasked with doing upgrades to the TC9IO driver, which
> covered the keyboard, joysticks, and sound, and had hooks into the
> windowing system).
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
>
>
> > On Jan 19, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > To tell you the truth Christopher, Kevin did write that utility.  It was
> part of the Level 2 upgrade that never came to be.  Curtis and I got that
> utility with our TC-9’s by accident.  The story I remember is Frank Hogg
> gave us a copy of Level 2 for the TC-9, at time of sale, that happened to
> contain portions of the upgrade by accident.  We didn’t discover this until
> we started disassembly of the TC-9 core vs the CC3.
> >
> > Bill Nobel
> >
> >> On Jan 19, 2016, at 7:33 PM, Christopher Fox <cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Didn’t hear from anyone on the list about this. I find that a bit
> surprising, honestly.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Regardless, I did find references to a “wdir” command written by Kevin
> Darling, and the description implies it’s similar to or the same as what
> I’ve got on some of my OS-9 Lvl II disks. Found this info referencing a
> “GEnie” archive, which seems to have been lost? It would’ve contained the
> Basic09 source for this command.
> >>
> >> If anyone happens to have it, I’d love to have a copy of the source.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Christopher
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 20160116, 11:00, "Coco on behalf of Christopher Fox" <
> coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com on behalf of cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Finally getting a chance to spend more time with my CoCos, both
> hardware and emu. The new VCC is amazing, btw.
> >>>
> >>> On some of my old OS-9 boot disks, I’ve found a command called wdir
> that provides a list of windows. Any information on where that might’ve
> come from? It doesn’t appear to be part of the Nitros-9 distribution?
> >>>
> >>> christopher
> >>>
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