[Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from script

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

nor:

PWD > %0


Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried :
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> PWD > var.0
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> with no avail
>
> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
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>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 02 April 2015 12:28:01 Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Well, starting a program and for it to determine where it is I do in
>> > my archive program and doing that is just not simple. Perhaps there is
>> > a more elegant way to do it.
>> >
>> > PWD and PXD we do have. But will they help?
>>
>> The output of those programs can be redirected to a shell var.  That
>> would appear to be step one in such a script.
>>
>> > I need to think a while on this, it takes some time for my mine to
>> > work on things two (2) decades in the past.
>>
>> Yes, there is that too. :(
>>
>> > That was one of the first programs I wrote for OS-9 so I may have
>> > missed an easier way.
>> >
>> > I did program called "Filldisk" and used it to set up all my boot
>> > disks and others to have the CMDS directory in the same location
>> > allowing disks to be swapped and programs run without the usually
>> > needed CHX.
>> >
>> > VDIR loads the files / folders in the current folder into the second
>> > ShellPlus variable set.
>> >
>> > I am unsure if it will help.
>> >
>> > SHF
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
>> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 6:44 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from script
>> >
>> > >I want to make a disk that will have a RUN script in its root that
>> > > will run the /dX/cmds/program, no matter if you put the disk in /d0,
>> > > /d1 or even just copied anywhere in the /dd hard drive.
>> > >
>> > > In other words, a script that will get the current path and execute
>> > > the relative executable in the ./CMDS/ folder. Is that possible ? I
>> > > don't want to force the user to type CHX /d0/cmds or have to type
>> > > the drive. I just want this:
>> > >
>> > > cd /d0
>> > > RUN
>> > >
>> > > that's it. Is it ppossible ? How do I copy the current path to a
>> > > variable ?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Plus
>> > > Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>>
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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