[Coco] Play with NitrOS-9 over the Internet

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Willard,

Yes, "ex" is the right way to exit a shell.  If someone gets in the system and presses ENTER, they should see the login message, but may just see a shell prompt because the last person to use that port did not type "ex" before leaving.  It's fine either way.

I found out why the disk went error #214:


  Addr     0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F 0 2 4 6 8 A C E
--------  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------------
00000a00  00bf 0000 6d0c 1b0f 1600 0002 00e0 6d0c .?..m........`m.
00000a10  1b00 000b 0008 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................

Somehow, the FD sector for the root directory got a 00 written as the first byte, and every other byte in that sector was shifted right by one byte.  Not sure how this happened, but undoubtedly it was during a write call.  I'll keep an eye out for this problem to see if it can be reduplicated.

In the meantime, I've recreated the disk image and the system is back up.

Boisy

On Dec 27, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Willard Goosey wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 04:40:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Unforch, I still have a shell prompt:
>> {T2|11}/DD:close
>> ERROR #214
> 
> "ex"????
> 
> Sending an escape should work, too.  I'd try it, but the CoCo seems to
> be down at the moment.
> 
> As for backspace, ^H is the default.  0x7F, IIRC, is ASCII "delete"
> which is probably what your linux box's backspace key actually sends.
> But that's a flame war that's been raging since the GNU project
> started, if not before, so there's no reason to continue it here.
> 
> Willard
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