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

[Charlie]

Excellent, thanks a lot , Boisy!

Could you explain how the path statement works? Is there a way to include it
in the Startup file and have it work across all the windows I create during
boot up?

Charlie

"Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote in
message news:528B132C-EB09-11D8-8FDE-0003939F08E6 at boisypitre.com...
>
> 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.
>
>
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