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

[Bill Pierce]

William, the 51 column screen in L1 uses up 6k of precious ram (PMODE4 screen). It seems NitrOS9 is a little larger than vanilla OS9 and already takes more ram, so the 32 col screen will give you more ram.
Also, I would trim the boot down to the bare essentials to give as much ram as possible. I've also found many old L1 programs will not run under Nitros9 due to the memroy usage.

 

 


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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 2:15 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] How to type underscore in OS9 L1 under XRoar

Thanks, Bill.  I am a long time user of NitrOS-9 L2 on VCC and have justrecently become interested in XRoar so I can get my feet wet with NOS-9L1. Some of my initial tests have not gone well.  It seems that the systembecomes unstable rather quickly after performing simple file operations onDriveWire disks.  I am using the 51 column boot and just issuing a dsavecommand piped into a shell will lock the session after copying just a dozenor so files.  I am using this command:chd /x3; dsave -s8 -tv /x1 ! shell -pThe disks in /x3 and /x1 are 9 megabyte ( dmode /x3 cyl=800 ) DriveWire 4disks.  Disk /x3 has two large ZIP files on it.  One file is ~600K and theother ~1.2MB and the rest of  the disk is the expanded files from the ZIPin their respective folder hierarchies.  After copying the two large ZIPfiles, some folders are created and about 10 more files will copy beforethe session locks up.  I'm hoping that this is just quirk of using the 51column graphics screen for /TERM and that the system will be much morestable using the 32 column boot.William CarlinOn 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>>>>>>> Bill Pierce> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way to> slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull>>>> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page> Global Moderator for TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer Forums> http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/>> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com>>>>>>> -----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>> 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> listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>> --> Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco