[Coco] MShell Update

[Bill Pierce]

Gene, it's the same copy of sleuth I got from you. I don't use any other disassembler in OS9. I haven't tried upgrading it to 6309 yet, too much on the plate for now.

As for the 2 panel screen, I also have a 3 and 4 panel screen set up for some upcoming modules. I figured 2 panels is enough for a file manager and it gives more real estate per drive. It display 42 files per panel scrollable up to (256k/768k/1.5m) of filenames. You'll be able to do batch select, copy move delete rename etc. This will include RSDOS partitions as well as files currently on the DW4 PC host. I may even include the facility to move "dsk" files to the OS9 HD to strip the files (courtesy Bob Devries) but it would really just be overkill.

I'll be using the 3 and 4 panel screens in the Auto boot creator and a couple of others.
I'm looking forward to creating the text editor with the 1.5meg data buffer. On a 512k machine it should have at least a 256k buffer, the largest of any "in memory" text editor ever for OS9.


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Feb 1, 2014 12:27 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] MShell Update


On Saturday 01 February 2014 12:19:53 Bill Pierce did opine:

> Hi all,
>  I have been working diligently on MShell the past few weeks and have
> made quite a bit of progress. The virtual memory system now works
> flawlessly and I can now use the complete Coco 3 memory for program
> data space. I have the File Manager GUI up and running and am currently
> working on the scrolling techniques to be able to manipulate dual panel
> directories on a single screen. Things are really coming together with
> the V-Mem system working. I can now spend time on functionality instead
> of chasing rogue pointers :-)
> 
> For those interested, I have started a set of blog pages for the
> development updates:
> 
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/mshell---the-ultimate-os-9-gu
> i/the-mshell-blog
> 
> As well as the original MShell project "Description" page that details
> what I am attempting to do with Mshell.
> 
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/mshell---the-ultimate-os-9-gu
> i
> 
> As usual, all suggestions welcome and criticism ignored :-P

Wow!  Bill, this is the 2 pane file manager I've been looking for for 
almost 30 years.  Thank you for undertaking it.

I see in the file listing displayed, a copy of sleuth3.  I am the one who 
converted the original L1 V1.00 srcs to modern defs so it could be built on 
a coco3.  With Buds permission of course.  I still think, that anyone who 
may have taken a course from Prof Bud Pass, had one of the best teachers 
ever.

How do you like it, and have you added the 6309 op-codes to it now?
 
> 
> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
> 
> 
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