[Coco] Mess Question

[Manny]

tim lindner wrote:
> Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org> wrote:
> 
>> Just a quick question, how do I go about finding what command line 
>> options are for a particular ROM? I remember in earlier versions (I 
>> think =< 0.103) that they changed a lot of the options to be specified
>> in the ROM image (or it's description). Is that still the case, or have
>> they gone back to more of a 'standardizing' (for lack of a better word)
>> approach?
> 
> Is this what your looking for?
> 
> $ ./messg4 -listdevices coco3

Why haven't I seen this before? Ugh... I must be lazy, blind, or both. 
Sorry. :(

>  SYSTEM      DEVICE NAME (brief)   IMAGE FILE EXTENSIONS SUPPORTED    
> ----------  --------------------  ------------------------------------
> coco3        printer     (prin)     .prn  
>              cassette    (cass)     .wav  .cas  
>              floppydisk0 (flop0)    .dsk  .os9  .vdk  .dmk  
>              floppydisk1 (flop1)    
>              floppydisk2 (flop2)    
>              floppydisk3 (flop3)    
>              cartridge   (cart)     .ccc  .rom  
>              snapshot    (dump)     .pak  
>              harddisk    (hard)     .vhd  
> 
> 
> 
> Add a hyphen to the brief device name to specify it on the command line.
> Like this:
> 
> $./messg4 coco3 -flop0 disk.dsk

This makes me wonder if the Python module that helps MESSyFront isn't 
working correctly, though... How long have these options been in the 
CoCo3 ROM for MESS?

-M.