[Coco] Re: Shell + 2.2a

John Donaldson jadonaldson at charter.net
Mon Jul 12 11:38:25 EDT 2004


Charlie,
    Try downloading the files from http://www.nitros9.org/. There files 
for the COCO1/2,
COCO3 with 6809 and COCO3 with 6309. Both of the COCO3 versiosn have 
SHell 2.2a
already installed. You will need the DSKINI.exe file to transfer them 
from a DSK to a real coco3
diskette.


John Donaldson


Charlie wrote:

> What can I do to fix the problem? What files were merged? I know most 
> of  my OS9 system was put together many years ago, and I remember 
> replacing  many commands with ones from delphi.
>
> I don't know very much about OS9 but I would love to understand it 
> better.  Not to mention get everything working with Shell+2.2a :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:15:06 -0700, Ray Watts  
> <rayanddoraleew at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Charlie wrote:
>>
>>> This weekend I replaced Shell+2.1 with Shell+2.2a on my COCO3 OS9  
>>> LevII  system. I correctly did the IPATCH to SCF.MN and made a new 
>>> boot  disk.  When I boot the system to OS9 everything seems fine 
>>> and  Shell+2.2a seems  to be working.
>>>
>>> However, the 1st thing I tried to do gave me trouble. I get a not  
>>> enough  RAM error when I try to format a floppy disk. Switching back 
>>> to  Shell+2.1  everything works fine.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me with this?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>> Isn't that the notorious case where files merged with Shell+2.1 was 
>> JUST  below 1024X8-512?  Then when you replaced 2.1 with a larger 
>> 2.2a you  went over the 8k limit.  Sure sounds like it.
>>
>>
>
>
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