[Coco] Weird errors

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:54:05 -0600, Leon Howell <puritan_2076 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> Why do I get a "Syntax error -echo" almost(?) every time I start a  
> program
> that was written in Basic-09? This (or something) caused the Icon Editor  
> to
> crash, but most other programs can handle it.
>
> I tried to extract the archive reminder.ar with "ar -x reminder.ar" and  
> all I
> got was "unknown compression method". How do I extract it? Ar can read a
> directory, and DeArc, UnArj, and LHA don't recognize it, so I'm pretty  
> shure
> it is an Ar file.

    Which version of AR are you running? It me be a 1.3/2.0 compatibility  
issue (went from 11 to 12 bit compression, from what I recall)?
The Syntax error is probably from Boisy's redoing of the syntax for the  
Tmode/Xmode commands... from what I have heard, it breaks an LOT of older  
programs.
(One reason we never changed syntax on any of the stuff we did with the  
original 1.x to 2.01 versions of Nitros9... we wanted backwards  
compatibility with existing OS-9 Level I/II programs, not compatibility  
with OS-9-68K, which a Coco could never run software from anyways). Long  
term, it would probably be best to support both methods, if one needs the  
new methods at all.
    You should be able to replace the Nitros9 3.xx.xx TMODE and XMODE  
commands with the stock ones from OS-9 Level II, and that should fix it...

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L. Curtis Boyle