[Coco] shell in NitrOS-9

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Wayne Campbell wrote:

> The shell that gets loaded (with all the merged modules in the file) has a different ident from the shell_21 module in the same directory. Since the shell that loads has the functionality of using cd/cx instead of chd/chx, and type ahead, I presume it is shell+. What is shell_21? Should I make a new shell file that uses it instead of the default shell?

Wayne,

shell_21 is the original shell that came with OS-9 Level One/Level Two.  The shell with the merged modules is indeed shell+.

> 
> Related, but not, can I cobbler a HD and make it a boot disk? I want to try it, but I'm afreaid if it doesn't work, I'll have to reformat the drive, and I just did that. I don't want to have to reformat the very next day, so I'm asking first. lol

cobbler writes out the bootfile in memory to a device.  If your bootfile boots from a floppy disk, then cobbler'ing to a hard drive really doesn't buy you anything.  Plus cobbler writes to track 34 (sectors 618-630) which would require special a special ROM.  For those reasons, I don't think cobbler will work.

> Wayne
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