[Coco] Re: Re: NitrOS-9 newbie needs some help

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On Aug 10, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Charlie wrote:


> Thanks for the info Mark. When I jump 20 years to today I look to my 

> left at

> my AMD3000+ with a gig of ram and 120 gigs of storage. When I play 

> with my

> favorite "little" computers I grew up using I use my COCO3 and MC-10. 

> These

> 2 have been getting much more time from me than the x86 system of 

> today.

>

> I do play with Nitros-9 a lot. Everytime I try a new release I find

> something that discourages me. This latest version was working out 

> great,

> until I tried to view some pictures files with my favorite command 

> "view"

> and I was getting an error 184. This might not even be the fault of 

> Nitros-9

> but it all works under OS-9.


View 4.4 works for me.  I displayed a GIF file just fine yesterday 
afternoon with it.  What version of view are you using?  What type of 
file are you displaying?


> I'd really really like to know how to make the /TERM window white text 

> on

> all black.


display 1b 32 0 1b 33 2 1b 34 2 c


> My OS-9 tells me details with error messages, Nitros-9 just tells me an

> error number.


Make a new boot disk which includes os9p3_errmsg.


> My OS-9 is very custom. Most of my commands were hacked up by a guy 

> named

> "Randy" back in the Delphi sig days.

> My dsave works way different, and my attr uses wildcards.... things 

> like

> that.


To use dsave, you must chd to the source directory, then dsave to the 
destination.  For example, to dsave from /d0 to /d1, do:

chd /d0
dsave /d1 ! shell -p

I'll grant you that attr badly needs an update.


> I know the Nitros-9 guys are working on documentation, and that is 

> what I

> think will make Nitros-9 much much better.


Eventually it will get done.


> Don't get me wrong I'm 100% into using Nitros-9, but knowing as little 

> as I

> do about how it works, it is very easy to get frustrated.


Until documentation is available, just ask questions like you're doing 
now.