[Coco] columnized output in DriiveWire

[James Jones]

OK, that makes sense. (Shows where I spend most of my time on the CoCo,
too.) Thanks.

The YouTube videos showing nineserver in action are five years old--I was
hoping it would be completed by now.

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:01 PM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> A nineserver must replicate the action of coco a bit there no?  Hence you
> need to uppercase output at 32 cols.  The nineserver code does exist.  Its
> probably on my harddrive, but i only have publicly derived code.(i think)
>  I have seen the code... it draws rectangles, and is ready for stubs for
> the other os9 escape codes (circles, lines, etc) iirc, some of it was
> purposely disabled. WIP?
>
> On Jan 2, 2018 6:42 PM, "James Jones" <jejones3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Still looking at DriveWire source (what I can find; still looking for the
> "nineserver" source). Over in DWCommandList.java there's code that deals
> with columnized output, which certainly makes sense, but... there's code
> there that takes the output and maps it to upper case--but only if there
> are fewer than 32 columns.
>
> So, my question is: why does it bother with the toUpperCase()? It's not a
> big deal, but I'm just wondering why it was put in there.
>
> James Jones
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