[Coco] How to import source code into NitrOS-9?

[Bill Pierce]

Kelly, that's basically, what MShell does, but with a graphic GUI that's point&click. It uses DW4's dir cmd, to list the PC dir to one panel, then read the os9 dir in the other. Click a filename twice (once just 'selects' it) and a menu pops up with the option for copy, move etc, and performs that operation on the file to the other panel (if applicable). To get files to the PC, I use the DW4 virtual printer, but before it sends the file to '/p', it sets the DW4 print dir to the same as the dir shown with the addition of the filename, which causes OS9 to 'print' the file to the PC with the desired destination and name. Once the operation finishes, it resets the printer back to normal. Then the dir operation is refreshed on the affected panel.
Of course all this is invisible to the user and all they see is two file lists, to which they just point & click.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [Coco] How to import source code into NitrOS-9?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Pereira"
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Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2015 12:24 PM
Subject: [Coco]
How to import source code into NitrOS-9?


> Hello all,
>
> I am having a blast
experimenting with my CoCo3FPGA.  Since I now have a 
> beautiful VGA display
that displays 80 character lines clearly, I have 
> been able to renew my
experiments with NitrOS-9.
>
> I can boot and run NitrOS-9.  I have installed
BASIC09.  I have tried a 
> variety of applications for OS-9, but most (if not
all) do not seem to 
> work.  I am chalking this up to CoCo3FPGA running
Drivewire, and the 
> applications seem to really want real disk drives.
>
> I
have been able to type in a small variety of my programs in BASIC and 
> get
them to run under BASIC09.
>
> But…  What if I have a significant size source
code file in assembler or 
> BASIC?  I do not want to type it all in again!
>
>
For example, I have the Talbot Microsystems source code for Color Forth. 
> I
typed this all in by hand, and I worked with it in Robert Gault’s 
> EDTASM6309,
under DECB.  What if I want to get this large source code file 
> into
NitrOS-9?
>
> On other vintage computer systems I have, I can use Kermit, or a

> home-grown program called PCGET, to transfer files from my external laptop 
>
PC that I am using as a terminal.  What tool(s) does one use to perform 
> this
same operation under NitrOS-9?
>
> My primary goal would be to move large source
code files (ASCII files) 
> into NitrOS-9, so I can then use the assembler, or
use them in BASIC09.
>
> Thanks for listening and letting me know what you
do.
>
> smp
> --
> Stephen M. Pereira
> Bedford, NH  03110
> KB1SXE
>
>
> -- 

I
use the drivewire list command to move source files from my PC to the

CoCo.

All my CoCo stuff is on the E drive of my drivewire PC in a directory
called 
CoCo.

I use the following to copy a source file from my drivewire PC to
my CoCo 3:

dw server list e:\coco\filename.asm >filename.asm

That copies the
file named filename.asm from the PC to a file named 
filename.asm in the working
directory of the Coco.

Very quick and easy.






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