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

Kip Koon computerdoc at sc.rr.com
Sun Apr 5 14:45:06 EDT 2015 

Hi Bill,
I would be interested in this SysGo source code.  Thanks a bunch!

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill Pierce via Coco
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 3:15 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Cc: Bill Pierce
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OS/9 Command to gain keyboard control from script
> 
> 
> 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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> >>>>   soap, ballot,
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> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >>
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> >>   soap, ballot,
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> >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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