[Coco] My Windows Readme

[Bob Devries]

Luis,

would you PLEASE read section 3 of the OS-9 manual (pages 3-1ff)

Although not specifically mentioned, you can use <>>>.1 I believe you 
can also create a window by using /W. It grabs the next available window 
descriptor.

If all else fails, RTFM !

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia



On 3/04/2015 11:58 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> For example, I made a cp/m emulator and I want to prepare some disks. Some
> applications need kaypro_ii terminal others vt-52, so I need -k or -v
> option. In order to avoid confusion I wan to make the disks with a run
> script on its root. I gave up taking the current directory. No one could
> give me a direction on that. Then my run script for wordstar would be:
>
> path=/d0/cmds /d1/cmds /d2/cmds
> cpm -k ws.com
>
> My problem: This thing won't work because CP/M won't receive my keyboard,
> it loads and then hangs. I need to redirect the /term to it and I don't
> know how to do it. But what if the user runs it from /w7 for example ? Or
> /term ?
>
> I don't want to make ML programs for each separate pack. this is
> ridiculous. If so, the os-9 scripting is pure garbage. Yeah, getting pissed
> off it now....why people tell me there is no problem here ? What I didn't
> get about OS-9 ?
>
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> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at mindspring.com
>> wrote:
>
>>      This set of sources will build the following set of windows.
>>
>>      Please note that the Tvdg, V1, V2, V3 and V4 files produce
>>      a set of device descriptors that will not match the TANDY
>>      ones. Either someone has been very sloppy or something strange
>>      is going on. Tvdg has been tried, but not V1-V4.
>>
>>      As the source is here, you can change the colors to your liking.
>>      Suggest that Window_Com be studied before any changes.
>>
>>      9           TERM -  (80 x 25) White   on Blue    with Blue    Border
>>      0           W1   -  (80 x 25) White   on Blue    with Green   Border
>>      /           W2   -  (80 x 25) White   on Blue    with Yellow  Border
>>      1           W3   -  (80 x 25) White   on Blue    with Cyan    Border
>>      1           W4   -  (40 x 25) White   on Blue    with Red     Border
>>      /           W5   -  (80 x 25) White   on Blue    with Black   Border
>>      2           W6   -  (80 x 25) White   on Blue    with Magenta Border
>>      9           W7   -  (80 x 25) White   on Blue    with White   Border
>>                  W8   -  (40 x 25) White   on Blue    with White   Border
>>                  W9   -  (40 x 12) Black   on Green   with -W14-   Border
>>                  W10  -  (80 x 12) Black   on Cyan    with Red     Border
>>                  W11  -  (80 x 12) Blue    on White   with -W10-   Border
>>                  W12  -  (40 x 13) Blue    on Yellow  with -W10-   Border
>>                  W13  -  (40 x 13) White   on Magenta with W10-W14 Border
>>                  W14  -  (40 x 25) Yellow  on Blue    with Cyan    Border
>>                  W15  -  (40 x 25) Black   on White   with -W14-   Border
>>
>>    ***************   *****************   ****************  *****************
>>    *             *   *               *   *       *      *  *       *       *
>>    *     W10     *   *      W10      *   *       *  W9  *  *       *       *
>>    *             *   *               *   *       *      *  *       *       *
>>    ***************   *****************   *  W14  ********  *  W14  *  W15  *
>>    *             *   *       *       *   *       *      *  *       *       *
>>    *     W11     *   *  W12  *  W13  *   *       * W13  *  *       *       *
>>    *             *   *       *       *   *       *      *  *       *       *
>>    ***************   *****************   ****************  *****************
>>
>>      NOTE! Window  W11      must be started from W10.
>>            Windows W12      must be started from W10.
>>            Window  W13      can  be started from either W10 or W14.
>>            Window  W9       must be started from W14.
>>            Window  W15      must be started from W14.
>>
>>
>> I hope this post looks right, finally it does for me at least. (The
>> Courier New monospaced font.)
>>
>>
>> This is the readme for the OS-9 Windows I created.
>>
>> Looking at the makefile NitrOS-9 Shellplus will not allow asm of the
>> source due to the file append bug I reported again today.
>>
>> If someone wishes to try, I can supply the asm source and the makefile.
>> (SHF97, 80T 2S DNS=3)
>>
>> It appears that I did not allow for four (4) windows on the same screen.
>> (I ran out of Windows Numbers.)
>>
>>
>> SHF
>>
>>
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