[Coco] MShell Update - New Version

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Nov 18 10:05:42 EST 2014


On Tuesday 18 November 2014 09:33:33 Bill Pierce via Coco did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Nick,
> Give me a few minutes to wake up and I'll fix it.
> I made some fixes last night, and uploaded a new version. I then ran my
> VM with linux to do some testing in linux and since my vm won't access
> my PC's drives, I downloaded the new upload and got the same thing you
> did. The header is corrupted on the main file.

What editor are you using on the pc? If on linux, gedit has become famous 
for that, but I have had no such problems with geany.

> It was 2:30 am and I
> had been debugging mshell since 9:am yesterday morning and was
> exhausted so I said "screw it", and crawled in bed. For some reason
> the copy failed to the disk or the upload corrupted it. I'll have
> another copy (tested) up in a few minutes. On you CocoSDC copy of
> MShell, if you have internet access on your dw4 server, you can update
> MShell from your Coco using the internet updater. When you get MShell
> started, just hit 'u' and 'u', then follow the prompts. I have checked
> those files, they are fine (different upload). I'll have the disk back
> up in a few minutes.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Bill Pierce
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> 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 2:57 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] MShell Update - New Version
> 
> 
> I have MShell running on my CoCoSDC version of the NitrOS-9
> distribution but I want to run it on VCC.
> 
> I have downloaded a fresh come of the distribution attached as /d0 in
> VCC (nos96309l2v030300coco3_80d)
> 
> and a fresh copy of the MShell download attached as /d1 in VCC.
> 
> I execute...
> 
> chd /d1
> dsave -s48 /d0 ! shell -p
> 
> It copies the files to /d0 and everying looks fine. This is what I did
> with the SDC version.
> 
> But when I run MSHELL I get nothing. Just the cursor returns waiting
> for another command.
> 
> What's wrong this time?
> 
> 
> Nick


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