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

Stephen H. Fischer SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
Fri Apr 3 00:06:00 EDT 2015


Hi Bob,

I found "CC3Go.ar" on SHF35 which has OS-9 Level System Patches.

It is an ".AR" file which I cannot handle currently. (From 1990)

If you cannot find it please send me a PM and I will tell you where SHF35 (80T 2S DNS=3) is online.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from script


> Hi Luis,
> 
> many years ago, a friend and me created a "revised" version of CC3Go 
> (now SysGo) which would read a text file (a single line of text) which 
> had the parameters of the startup shell in it. This resulted that the 
> first shell could have PATH=/dd/cmds /dd/USR/CMDS (or whatever you needed).
> ISTR that this CC3Go module was discussed here a few months ago.
> 
> I may still have the source code for it, and it *is* compatible with 
> NitrOS9.
> 
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
> 
> 
> On 3/04/2015 11:39 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
>> now I'm trying to use:
>>
>> path=/dd/cmds /d0/cmds /d1/cmds
>>
>> but it wont work because anything you set inside a script is valid only for
>> that session. You need to type it by hand what is awful. I want to use that
>> in my startup script
>>
>> I just wnat to be able to put a disk on drive 0 or 1 and run a program
>> without having to change CHX or PATH everytime. This is so frustating...
>>
>>
>> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday 02 April 2015 13:02:30 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
>>>> I tried :
>>>>
>>>> PWD > var.0
>>>>
>>>> with no avail
>>>>
>>>> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>>>
>>> I am not sure if that is the correct syntax, and its been 2 decades or so
>>> since I last used it, and nothing like it currently exists in my startup
>>> scripts.  Docs on shellplus would be more helpful that I iin this case
>>> where you need it yesterday.
>>>
>>>> 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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