[Coco] Re: Re: NitrOS-9 newbie needs some help

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On Aug 10, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Charlie wrote:

> Thanks for the info Mark. When I jump 20 years to today I look to my 
> left at
> my AMD3000+ with a gig of ram and 120 gigs of storage. When I play 
> with my
> favorite "little" computers I grew up using I use my COCO3 and MC-10. 
> These
> 2 have been getting much more time from me than the x86 system of 
> today.
>
> I do play with Nitros-9 a lot. Everytime I try a new release I find
> something that discourages me. This latest version was working out 
> great,
> until I tried to view some pictures files with my favorite command 
> "view"
> and I was getting an error 184. This might not even be the fault of 
> Nitros-9
> but it all works under OS-9.

View 4.4 works for me.  I displayed a GIF file just fine yesterday 
afternoon with it.  What version of view are you using?  What type of 
file are you displaying?

> I'd really really like to know how to make the /TERM window white text 
> on
> all black.

display 1b 32 0 1b 33 2 1b 34 2 c

> My OS-9 tells me details with error messages, Nitros-9 just tells me an
> error number.

Make a new boot disk which includes os9p3_errmsg.

> My OS-9 is very custom. Most of my commands were hacked up by a guy 
> named
> "Randy" back in the Delphi sig days.
> My dsave works way different, and my attr uses wildcards.... things 
> like
> that.

To use dsave, you must chd to the source directory, then dsave to the 
destination.  For example, to dsave from /d0 to /d1, do:

chd /d0
dsave /d1 ! shell -p

I'll grant you that attr badly needs an update.

> I know the Nitros-9 guys are working on documentation, and that is 
> what I
> think will make Nitros-9 much much better.

Eventually it will get done.

> Don't get me wrong I'm 100% into using Nitros-9, but knowing as little 
> as I
> do about how it works, it is very easy to get frustrated.

Until documentation is available, just ask questions like you're doing 
now.