[Coco] Nitro9 and 'startup' file

[Bill Pierce]

Chuck, the problem is that the shell that's running when startup runs is temporary so any shell changes die with startup as startup starts a new shell that executes when startup dies.

Also, you might want to check out Vcc 1.4.3b and DriveWire4.
This version of Vcc access the PC's drives in the form of the VHDs and DSKs and will allow you much more. Basically, it connects Vcc (or a real Coco) to the outside world.
 http://vcc.cococoding.com/
&
http://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/

And there's also my Vcc Starter Kits
https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/the-color-computer-drivewire4-hdbdos-nitros9-starter-kit
which include EVERYTHING needed to setup Vcc & Drivewire4
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Rose via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 12:24 am
Subject: [Coco] Nitro9 and 'startup' file


Hi all,

I'm new to this list and I'm ecstatic to have found a coco list.

Keep in mind that I have quite a bit of experience with Microware's OS9, but 
haven't actively used it in 15 or 20 years.  I recently found and installed vcc 
version 1.42 on my pc.  Heck of an emulator.  I also downloaded a virtual hard 
disk NitrOS9.vhd from the repository on source forge.  

Now on to my problem.  My 'startup' file in the root directory on the virtual 
hard disk(/dd), doesn't seem to execute any additions that I've added to it.  I 
don't get any error messages, it just doesn't execute them.  It's nothing 
complicated about the additions, (tmode .1 pau=1, and chd /dd/my.progs).  So I 
made a procedure file with just those two commands in it and edited startup to 
run the procedure file.  No dice, again, no error but command calling my 
procedure file (in the same directory as startup) was ignored.  So next I tried 
running my procedure file directly from /dd and the tmode pause worked but it 
didn't change the directory.  Not sure what could be causing this but it appears 
to be a bug.  Don't know if it's vcc (no other anomalies noted in RGBDOS), the 
hard disk image, or NitrOS9 (also no other anomalies noted).  I'm hoping that 
it's just my lack of experience with NitrOS9 and it something I'm doing wrong.

Info about my setup.  I have vcc configured with 6309 CPU 1.79mhz with 2 megs of 
memory.  I have just the floppy controller and the hard disk controller in my 
virtual multipack.  Any ideas?

Thanks for listening  :)

Charles

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