[Coco] l2update and bbs dsk images in nitros9 source tree

[Bill Pierce]

Thanks Christopher :-)


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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 10:21 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] l2update and bbs dsk images in nitros9 source tree


On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:33:29 -0500 (EST)
Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> @ Curtis (and anyone else who has knowledge of this),
> After you stated that some of the "Upgrade" features HAD been
> included into the Nitros9 repo, I started taking a look around. In
> looking through the latest "defs" files, I'm finding quite a few of
> the system calls and gets/setstat parms that are mentioned in the
> docs and notes in the upgrade. A lot of these "new" features are the
> kind of things that poeple often "wish" OS9 had... And they were
> already there! The thing that bothers me, I've stated it before and
> I'll state it again and again.... Where's the documentation? There's
> things in the additions that would make handling windows, mouse,
> get/put buffers, graphics, and much more... much easier. Why was all
> this stuff added then no documentation created on how to use it or
> even notes that it was there? The only indication of the existence of
> these calls is the sparse comments beside the calls in the defs
> files. Pretty soon, no one will be around that knows what these
> feature are and how they work. For instance, were the named pipes
> ever implemented?
> 
> Just food for thought :-)
> 
> 
> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens

	Yes, the named pipes were added to NitrOS-9 in 1988 (26 years
ago) by Chris Burke.
see: /nitros9/level2/modules/pipeman_named.asm line #23


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