[Coco] Re: Path command wasRe: OS-9 LVL II

[John Donaldson]

Wrote a scripted call   s.t.a.r.t.u.p and in it I put
path= /DD/CMDS /DD/PASCAL_CMDS

Rebooted system. At command prompt  I typed  PATH=? and got nothing back.
Anymore suggestions?? Seems the ONLY way to have this automatic is to do 
the PATH command
at the command prompt and NOT from a script.

John Donaldson



Robert Gault wrote:

> The primary problem seems to be that we are dealing with a hack to 
> shell rather than a change to the OS-9 system. We probably need a 
> change to one of the managers for something like path= to work with 
> all possible combinations of intermediate code modules.
>
> As for what Pascal created, if Ident indicates Test is ml code then I 
> don't understand what the difference is between Test and dEd regards 
> path=.
>
> John Donaldson wrote:
>
>> Robert,
>>    Here is what I have found. I booted the system. Startup ran, 
>> because it iniz /r0 and then formated it.
>> After I got the command prompt, I did a path=? and got nothing. Path= 
>> /dd/cmds /dd/pascal_cmds IS
>> in the startup file, just before the iniz /r0, so I know it had to be 
>> executed. 
>
>
> It won't stick unless the last line in the startup file is
> i=/1
>
>> At the command prompt I did
>> a path= /dd/cmds /dd/pascal_cmds and when I type path=? I get
>> /dd/cmds
>> /dd/pascal_cmds
>>
>> So now the path command is working. I then move DED from /dd/cmds to 
>> /dd/pascal_cmds. I then
>> deleted it from /dd/cmds so that it only resides in /dd/pascal_cmds. 
>> At the /DD command prompt I
>> typed DED @/d1 and it executed corretly. I then exited DED and the at 
>> the same /DD command
>> prompt typed test and got ERROR 216. TEST is a ML program that Pascal 
>> made and place in
>> /dd/pascal_cmds.
>>
>>  What we have is
>> 1. Startup script did not set PATH for every shell.
>> 2. If path is set, OS9 does search the path for the ML program that 
>> you typed in { DED }
>> 3. Test which is a ML program created by Pascal is NOT executed, 
>> unless it is put into
>> the /DD/CMDS directory.
>>
>> Now Pascal uses ASM to compile the program. Isn't ASM a Level I 
>> program?? Could this be the
>> problem??  If RMA is used instead of ASM would that solve the problem??
>>
>> John Donaldson
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert Gault wrote:
>>
>>> John Donaldson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robert,
>>>>  Even pure ML programs do not work on my system. Test is a ML 
>>>> program that Pascal made.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe this is critical. Have you tried this test with a program 
>>> created with an assembly package rather than Pascal? Heck, just move 
>>> one of the standard OS-9 commands to the test directory. Clearly 
>>> there is a difference between your system and mine with respect to 
>>> ml programs. We need to find what the cause of this is.
>>>
>>>> It sits in
>>>> the Pascal_cmds directory. Path is set to Path= /dd/cmds  
>>>> /dd/pascal_cmds.  I can execute any ML program
>>>> that is in /dd/cmds, but when I try and excute the test ML program 
>>>> from /DD , I get ERROR 216 - Bad Path
>>>> Name.Which means it searched /dd/cmds, but did not search 
>>>> /dd/pascal_cmds. Now if I do a chx
>>>> /DD/pascal_cmds and execute the test ML program from /dd, it works. 
>>>> The only conculsion I can come up
>>>> with is Path is NOT working.
>>>>
>>>> John Donaldson
>>>
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