[Coco] Play with NitrOS-9 over the Internet

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 27 December 2009, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>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 ................
>
That is totally off the wall Boisy.  I don't recall ever seeing that in 
thousands of floppies.

>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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