[Coco] Silly question

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 21 December 2013 15:18:56 Bill Gordon did opine:

> Well, the only shell I use is the one included in whatever distro of
> NitrOS-9 I use. I'm concentrating on Gene Heskett's distros for now,
> cause they have nearly everything I use.
> 
> I've successfully created a non-HDBDOS boot disk that will allow me to
> access DriveWire. All I gotta do is figure out which descriptor to put
> in the bootlist to have the ability to pr
> 
If this got truncated at print, two modules, the descriptor obviously, and 
the driver the descriptor names in a dump of it.

In my case:
../MODULES/SCF/scdwp.dr
../MODULES/SCF/p_scdwp.dd

Then I have the dw server configured to save whats printed to /p as a plane 
ascii text file, and some bash scripts here that detect that files closing, 
pick it up and move it, renaming it as it does and running it through d2u 
to convert the line ends and then sends it thru cups for rendering into a 
raster image, and sends it back down to a B&W laser printer on the coco's 
desk, where it spits out of the printer at about 19 pages a minute.  The 
printer fires up about 10 to 15 seconds after your "list file >/p" gets its 
shell prompt back.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On Behalf Of Bill Pierce
> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 2:48 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Silly question
> 
> 
> Bill.... Shell difference?... A lot of code....
> Seriously, I haven't used a standard shell since the arrival of the 1st
> Shell+. Also, you should not be using Shell 2.1 (or is it 2.0?) to start
> with. It's got a lot of problems unless someone has fixed them. If I
> remember right, it assumes you need more memory and auto assigns more
> memory to every program it runs. A lot of programs assign (malloc)
> their own memory and this feature alone would make them crash with
> error 207. There are some other problems as well. I have no idea why
> that shell was included in the repo distros along with 2.2a.
> You should use Shell 2.2a as those problems were addressed and more
> features added. I've used this shell since the 90s (or longer, whenever
> it became available on Delphi) and have had no problems.
> 
> Some of the things added to the newer shells are configurable prompts,
> wildcards from the command line, better scripting (though some say they
> have problems with scripts, I've yet to see them), and quite a few more
> features. The docs to shell 2.2a are on RTSI and explain the additions
> in detail as well as how to use them. I think the docs are in the repo
> as well.
> 
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