[Coco] Expert C programmer wanted

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 00:40 -0800, tim lindner wrote:
> John R. Hogerhuis <jhoger at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Outside the box:
> > 
> > I suppose it would be possible to run Microware C in an emulator and
> > suck the RMA code output of there. Not ideal, but that's the hack job
> > approach. Just make MESS+NitrOS-9 command line scriptable, and you've
> > got a command line C compiler.
> 
> There is a project on SourceForge called osnine:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/osnine/
> 
> It does exactly what you say. It is 6809 emulator that traps OS-9 calls
> and routes them to your native UNIX subsystem. I don't think there is a
> Windows port.
> 

Similar. My suggestion is much more dirty and kludgy, but probably a
weekend project.

To get access to a prompt: hack an OS-9 serial tty to get shell access.
Hack C command line options into MESS, and code to shunt them into the
shell now available.

For file access: OS-9 knows how to read it's file system. So to send/
receive files to host OS, maybe just read/write the files to standard
input/output.

-- John.