[Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from script

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

I tried :

PWD > var.0

with no avail

Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 02 April 2015 12:28:01 Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well, starting a program and for it to determine where it is I do in
> > my archive program and doing that is just not simple. Perhaps there is
> > a more elegant way to do it.
> >
> > PWD and PXD we do have. But will they help?
>
> The output of those programs can be redirected to a shell var.  That
> would appear to be step one in such a script.
>
> > I need to think a while on this, it takes some time for my mine to
> > work on things two (2) decades in the past.
>
> Yes, there is that too. :(
>
> > That was one of the first programs I wrote for OS-9 so I may have
> > missed an easier way.
> >
> > I did program called "Filldisk" and used it to set up all my boot
> > disks and others to have the CMDS directory in the same location
> > allowing disks to be swapped and programs run without the usually
> > needed CHX.
> >
> > VDIR loads the files / folders in the current folder into the second
> > ShellPlus variable set.
> >
> > I am unsure if it will help.
> >
> > SHF
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 6:44 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from script
> >
> > >I want to make a disk that will have a RUN script in its root that
> > > will run the /dX/cmds/program, no matter if you put the disk in /d0,
> > > /d1 or even just copied anywhere in the /dd hard drive.
> > >
> > > In other words, a script that will get the current path and execute
> > > the relative executable in the ./CMDS/ folder. Is that possible ? I
> > > don't want to force the user to type CHX /d0/cmds or have to type
> > > the drive. I just want this:
> > >
> > > cd /d0
> > > RUN
> > >
> > > that's it. Is it ppossible ? How do I copy the current path to a
> > > variable ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Plus
> > > Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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