[Coco] NITROS9 internal question on serial output control

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 04 November 2015 17:27:28 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:

> Gene, the scred instructions are in the Nitros9 wiki under
> documentation. They are bundled in with the RMA/RLink manual uner the
> "NitrOS9 Level 2 Development System" under "Screen Editor"
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/wiki/Main_Page/#documentation
>
And I never thought to check the wiki.  So now there are two places to 
get it.

Thanks for the heads up, Bill.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 11:48 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] NITROS9 internal question on serial output control
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>
> That
> sounds a lot like Dynastar. But DS has this strange requirement that
> it can
> only go fwd in a file, and any save operation actually cycles
> thru the whole
> file, re-writing it in its entirety just to fix the name
> spelling in the first
> line of the file.  It was quite good at that, but
> I wore out several floppy
> drives with it back in the day, and was quite
> bored of the whole thing by the
> time I got a prompt back.  Scred, like
> DS and TSedit, has a completely strange
> to me control key sequence,
> (although TSEdit/vi, now vim on my system, I have
> pretty well mastered)
> so to run sled, another different critter, I have to
> print a fresh copy
> of the help card & tape it over the monitor every time.
> Scred I have
> not found a help file for, so its not been actively used
> here.
>
> AFAIK, its still available on my web page, help yourself. I see there
> is
>
> also a scredfix.ar, which I haven't looked at in yonks.  Might be a
> fix to use
> /dd instead of /d0.  The fact that its an .ar might be confusing
> since there
> have been at 3 revisions, not always backwards compatible.
> That patches header
> says +AR0.0+ so thats the original ar I believe.
>
> I just drug out my copy of the
> level2 devel book, and the scred
> instructions are about 1/8" thick.  They are
> NOT on the disks.
>
> If interest, and I don't believe anyone else has done this, I
> have now
> scaned and and will post them as scanned, jpg'd images.  I've tried to
>
> OCR some of this before but its spelling mistakes are pretty rampant,
> so
>
> posting the images at a 300 dpi scan is probably best. At 300 dpi,
> they should
> scale up to full 8.5x11 paper quite well.  For those on tight
> budgets, page 30
> starts the "quick reference" which should get you
> started, and the last 6 pages
> are the index.  Blank pages were omitted
> on purpose.
>
> Done, now to move them to
> the web page & make them visible.  Give me 10
> minutes for that please.
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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