[Coco] Re: Path command wasRe: OS-9 LVL II

[John Donaldson]

Renamed s.t.a.r.t.u.p  autoexec, still nothing.

John Donaldson


John Donaldson wrote:

> Wrote a scripted call   s.t.a.r.t.u.p and in it I put
> path= /DD/CMDS /DD/PASCAL_CMDS
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> Rebooted system. At command prompt  I typed  PATH=? and got nothing back.
> Anymore suggestions?? Seems the ONLY way to have this automatic is to 
> do the PATH command
> at the command prompt and NOT from a script.
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> John Donaldson
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> Robert Gault wrote:
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>> The primary problem seems to be that we are dealing with a hack to 
>> shell rather than a change to the OS-9 system. We probably need a 
>> change to one of the managers for something like path= to work with 
>> all possible combinations of intermediate code modules.
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>> As for what Pascal created, if Ident indicates Test is ml code then I 
>> don't understand what the difference is between Test and dEd regards 
>> path=.
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>> John Donaldson wrote:
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>>> Robert,
>>>    Here is what I have found. I booted the system. Startup ran, 
>>> because it iniz /r0 and then formated it.
>>> After I got the command prompt, I did a path=? and got nothing. 
>>> Path= /dd/cmds /dd/pascal_cmds IS
>>> in the startup file, just before the iniz /r0, so I know it had to 
>>> be executed. 
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>> It won't stick unless the last line in the startup file is
>> i=/1
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>>> At the command prompt I did
>>> a path= /dd/cmds /dd/pascal_cmds and when I type path=? I get
>>> /dd/cmds
>>> /dd/pascal_cmds
>>>
>>> So now the path command is working. I then move DED from /dd/cmds to 
>>> /dd/pascal_cmds. I then
>>> deleted it from /dd/cmds so that it only resides in /dd/pascal_cmds. 
>>> At the /DD command prompt I
>>> typed DED @/d1 and it executed corretly. I then exited DED and the 
>>> at the same /DD command
>>> prompt typed test and got ERROR 216. TEST is a ML program that 
>>> Pascal made and place in
>>> /dd/pascal_cmds.
>>>
>>>  What we have is
>>> 1. Startup script did not set PATH for every shell.
>>> 2. If path is set, OS9 does search the path for the ML program that 
>>> you typed in { DED }
>>> 3. Test which is a ML program created by Pascal is NOT executed, 
>>> unless it is put into
>>> the /DD/CMDS directory.
>>>
>>> Now Pascal uses ASM to compile the program. Isn't ASM a Level I 
>>> program?? Could this be the
>>> problem??  If RMA is used instead of ASM would that solve the problem??
>>>
>>> John Donaldson
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>>>
>>> Robert Gault wrote:
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>>>> John Donaldson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Robert,
>>>>>  Even pure ML programs do not work on my system. Test is a ML 
>>>>> program that Pascal made.
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>>>> Maybe this is critical. Have you tried this test with a program 
>>>> created with an assembly package rather than Pascal? Heck, just 
>>>> move one of the standard OS-9 commands to the test directory. 
>>>> Clearly there is a difference between your system and mine with 
>>>> respect to ml programs. We need to find what the cause of this is.
>>>>
>>>>> It sits in
>>>>> the Pascal_cmds directory. Path is set to Path= /dd/cmds  
>>>>> /dd/pascal_cmds.  I can execute any ML program
>>>>> that is in /dd/cmds, but when I try and excute the test ML program 
>>>>> from /DD , I get ERROR 216 - Bad Path
>>>>> Name.Which means it searched /dd/cmds, but did not search 
>>>>> /dd/pascal_cmds. Now if I do a chx
>>>>> /DD/pascal_cmds and execute the test ML program from /dd, it 
>>>>> works. The only conculsion I can come up
>>>>> with is Path is NOT working.
>>>>>
>>>>> John Donaldson
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