[Coco] How to type underscore in OS9 L1 under XRoar

[William Carlin]

OK.  It looks like I may be right.  The 32 column boot is far more stable.
I copied my scripts over to the other disk and dsave has written 16000
sectors out and is still going.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 2:15 PM, William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Bill.  I am a long time user of NitrOS-9 L2 on VCC and have just
> recently become interested in XRoar so I can get my feet wet with NOS-9
> L1.  Some of my initial tests have not gone well.  It seems that the system
> becomes unstable rather quickly after performing simple file operations on
> DriveWire disks.  I am using the 51 column boot and just issuing a dsave
> command piped into a shell will lock the session after copying just a dozen
> or so files.  I am using this command:
>
> chd /x3; dsave -s8 -tv /x1 ! shell -p
>
> The disks in /x3 and /x1 are 9 megabyte ( dmode /x3 cyl=800 ) DriveWire 4
> disks.  Disk /x3 has two large ZIP files on it.  One file is ~600K and the
> other ~1.2MB and the rest of  the disk is the expanded files from the ZIP
> in their respective folder hierarchies.  After copying the two large ZIP
> files, some folders are created and about 10 more files will copy before
> the session locks up.  I'm hoping that this is just quirk of using the 51
> column graphics screen for /TERM and that the system will be much more
> stable using the 32 column boot.
>
> William Carlin
>
>
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> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
>> William, according to the L1 manual, you get the underscore by using
>> <CLEAR><->. It should display as a Left arrow
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com>
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Fri, Dec 30, 2016 6:46 am
>> Subject: [Coco] How to type underscore in OS9 L1 under XRoar
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>> I experimenting with Bill Pierce's pre-built OS9 L1 builds in XRoar and
>> Icannot figure out how to type an underscore.  Keyboard translation
>> isturned on.  Typing the underscore on the keyboard results in a period
>> beingtyped but that does not translate into an underscore when you want to
>> copya file with an underscore in the file/path name.Will-- Coco mailing
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