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

Fri Apr 3 03:15:03 EDT 2015

I've built Bob's SysGo for NitrtOS9 and use it on my system and it works perfect.
You can specify several directories to be in the path and never worry about setting them except when you change disks. It works rea well for an HD. I can stick my games in one location, my apps in another, and my utilities in cmds.

That's where the idea Stephen mentiond about making sure the CMDS dir is in the exact same location on every disk. I used to do this as well. 
I would put a copy of "OS9Boot" on every disk after formatting, then makdir /ddCMDS. then delete OS9Boot. You have to use the same boot you're booting with so it's the same size.
Then every disk I put in, the cmds dir was in the same LSN so I didn't have to reset it. Since I don't use floppies anymore, I haven't done this in ages.

If you want a copy of Bob's SysGo, I have the sources that can be built in OS9 with ASM.
I also added a custom boot screen that can be modified. There's also several on RTSI with various mods.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 2, 2015 9:51 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from script

Hi Luis,

many years ago, a friend and me created a "revised" version of CC3Go

(now SysGo) which would read a text file (a single line of text) which 
had the
parameters of the startup shell in it. This resulted that the 
first shell could
have PATH=/dd/cmds /dd/USR/CMDS (or whatever you needed).
ISTR that this CC3Go
module was discussed here a few months ago.

I may still have the source code
for it, and it *is* compatible with 
NitrOS9.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD,
Australia

On 3/04/2015 11:39 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> now I'm
trying to use:
>
> path=/dd/cmds /d0/cmds /d1/cmds
>
> but it wont work because
anything you set inside a script is valid only for
> that session. You need to
type it by hand what is awful. I want to use that
> in my startup script
>
> I
just wnat to be able to put a disk on drive 0 or 1 and run a program
> without
having to change CHX or PATH everytime. This is so frustating...
>
>
> Luis
Felipe Antoniosi
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Gene Heskett
<gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 02 April 2015 13:02:30 Luis
Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
>>> I tried :
>>>
>>> PWD > var.0
>>>
>>> with no
avail
>>>
>>> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>>
>> I am not sure if that is the correct
syntax, and its been 2 decades or so
>> since I last used it, and nothing like
it currently exists in my startup
>> scripts.  Docs on shellplus would be more
helpful that I iin this case
>> where you need it yesterday.
>>
>>> 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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>>>>
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>>
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