[Coco] Nitros9 and Smartwatch

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 15:54:38 -0500
Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> To add to Bill's comments, the NitrOS-9 WIKI is at
> https://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/wiki/Main_Page/
> 
> There are some differences between OS-9 and NitrOS-9 which are minor
> but confusing. Many of the commands can take parameters and some have
> been changed. For example, in OS-9 the command dir can have two
> parameters: x display current execution directory, e display full
> description of each file. However, in NitrOS-9 these parameters now
> require the - sign: dir -x   or  dir -e .
> 
> As it happens, the built in Help function indicates the syntax for
> dir. help dir
> 
> and you will get
> 
> Syntax: Dir [<opts>] [<path>]
> Usage : Displays formatted list of file names in a directory
> Opts  :
>    -e = extended dir
>    -x = execution dir
> 
> Unfortunately not all commands or programs are included in Help but
> you could edit the SYS/helpmsg file to include new command/program
> names. Also some programs have their own built-in help messages.
> Unfortunately many of these have been turned off in the current
> NitrOS-9 build. You could edit the source code to turn on the
> built-in help and recompile the programs.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 

DMODE was the big bugaboo for me. Still struggling with it.