[Coco] wdir command?

[Bill Pierce]

I found a C conversion of wdir, but not Kevin's original Basic09 version. The C source eve says it was converted from the Basic09 version. I sent Chris a copy.
 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean <badfrog at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 20, 2016 12:23 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] wdir command?

I haven't run OS-9 in many, many years, but could it have been a part ofthe GShell+ add on?  Somehow it kind of rings a bell.On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:36 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>wrote:> I don’t remember if Wdir came with it, but Bill is correct in that we> received a portion of the Level II upgrade by accident with our TC-9’s (but> far from complete). We disassembled (as Bills said) several of the modules> (since we were tasked with doing upgrades to the TC9IO driver, which> covered the keyboard, joysticks, and sound, and had hooks into the> windowing system).>> L. Curtis Boyle> curtisboyle at sasktel.net>>>> > On Jan 19, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:> >> > To tell you the truth Christopher, Kevin did write that utility.  It was> part of the Level 2 upgrade that never came to be.  Curtis and I got that> utility with our TC-9’s by accident.  The story I remember is Frank Hogg> gave us a copy of Level 2 for the TC-9, at time of sale, that happened to> contain portions of the upgrade by accident.  We didn’t discover this until> we started disassembly of the TC-9 core vs the CC3.> >> > Bill Nobel> >> >> On Jan 19, 2016, at 7:33 PM, Christopher Fox <cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:> >>> >> Didn’t hear from anyone on the list about this. I find that a bit> surprising, honestly.> >>> >>> >>> >> Regardless, I did find references to a “wdir” command written by Kevin> Darling, and the description implies it’s similar to or the same as what> I’ve got on some of my OS-9 Lvl II disks. Found this info referencing a> “GEnie” archive, which seems to have been lost? It would’ve contained the> Basic09 source for this command.> >>> >> If anyone happens to have it, I’d love to have a copy of the source.> >>> >> Thanks.> >>> >> Christopher> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> On 20160116, 11:00, "Coco on behalf of Christopher Fox" <> coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com on behalf of cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:> >>> >>> Finally getting a chance to spend more time with my CoCos, both> hardware and emu. The new VCC is amazing, btw.> >>>> >>> On some of my old OS-9 boot disks, I’ve found a command called wdir> that provides a list of windows. Any information on where that might’ve> come from? It doesn’t appear to be part of the Nitros-9 distribution?> >>>> >>> christopher> >>>> >>>> >>> --> >>> Coco mailing list> >>> Coco at maltedmedia.com> >>> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco> >>> >> --> >> Coco mailing list> >> Coco at maltedmedia.com> >> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco> >> >> > --> > Coco mailing list> > Coco at maltedmedia.com> > https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco> >>>> --> Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco