[Coco] NitrOS-9 Help Message suggestion

[Dave Philipsen]

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Dave Philipsen

> On Jan 11, 2017, at 4:58 AM, William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was briefly looking into this.  How can the 'help' program determine what
> the screen width is?  I know you can set the page length with tmode but see
> nothing there that describes the width of the current screen.
> 
> {N2|03}/DD:tmode
> /N2
> upc=00 bso=01 dlo=00 eko=01 alf=01 nul=00 pau=00 pag=18
> bsp=08 del=18 eor=0D eof=1B rpr=04 dup=01 psc=17 int=03
> qut=05 bse=08 ovf=07 par=00 bau=00 xon=00 xof=00
> 
> The width of the screen I copied this from is 80 columns.  I do not see an
> entry set to $50 that would indicate an 80 column screen.
> 
> I have not cracked open the OS9 technical documentation yet.  Perhaps this
> can be gleaned thought one of the getstat options?
> 
> 
> William
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Dave Philipsen wrote:
>> 
>>> Is it just a matter of word wrap?
>>> 
>>> Dave Philipsen
>> Not really. Here is an example of a help message and what it looks like on
>> a 32 col screen. Note that because of the line overrun, you lose lines as
>> the screen pause does not occur at 16 lines.
>> The col 32 screen has TMODE PAU=1 for a pause.
>> 
>> col80 screen
>> ============================================================
>> ===================
>> {Term|02}/DD:help dsave
>> Syntax: Dsave [<opts>] [<to path>]
>> Usage : Generates procedure file to copy all files from the
>>        current directory to <to path>
>> Opts  :
>>  -b = make a system disk by using OS9boot if present
>>  -b=<path> = make system disk using path as source
>>  -i = indent for directory levels
>>  -l = do not process below the current level
>>  -m = do not include makdir commands in procedure file
>>  -n = don't load copy/cmp
>>  -r = force rewrite of file on copy
>>  -s<num> = set copy size to num K
>>  -t = don't issue tmode (pause/nopause)
>>  -v = verify copies
>> 
>> Examples:
>>   Create a script to copy /h0 to /h5 with forced rewrite:
>>       chd /h0; dsave -r /h5 > dsave.out
>> 
>>   Immediately copy /d0 to /d1 with a 24K copy buffer:
>>       chd /d0; dsave -s24 /d1 ! shell -p
>> 
>> ============================================================
>> ====================
>> 
>> Now a col32 screen1
>> ================================
>>  -i = indent for directory leve
>> ls
>>  -l = do not process below the
>> current level
>>  -m = do not include makdir com
>> mands in procedure file
>>  -n = don't load copy/cmp
>>  -r = force rewrite of file on
>> copy
>>  -s<num> = set copy size to num
>> K
>>  -t = don't issue tmode (pause/
>> nopause)
>>  -v = verify copies
>> 
>> Examples:
>> ================================
>> 
>> screen2
>> ================================
>> 
>> nopause)
>> -v = verify copies
>> 
>> Examples:
>>   Create a script to copy /h0 t
>> o /h5 with forced rewrite:
>>       chd /h0; dsave -r /h5 > d
>> save.out
>> 
>>   Immediately copy /d0 to /d1 w
>> ith a 24K copy buffer:
>>       chd /d0; dsave -s24 /d1 !
>> shell -p
>> 
>> 
>> OS9:
>> ================================
>> 
>> Beginners have a hard enough time learning OS-9 without mangled help
>> messages. :)
>> 
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>> 
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