[Coco] I would like some help please

[Richard Hawk]

Ok so I tried that. Which is I restarted vcc and boot into nitros9
I typed load driver_mods
And load printer_mods
Did a quick dir /p
Came up with another error 237 -ram is full
So I thinks it loaded the printer now


-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Robert Gault
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 10:44 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] I would like some help please

Richard Hawk wrote:
> I am running vcc 1.4.3b with vccemudisk.vhd
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> I was reading all over the internet to get this printing through 
> drivewire 4,  and I came up with 
> http://sourceforge.net/p/drivewireserver/wiki/OS9_Modules/ To use 
> DriveWire printing, load the driver scdwp.dr and the descriptor 
> p_scdwp.dd. This will add the device /p to your system, which delivers 
> anything sent to it to the DriveWire virtual printer.
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> Well not sure how to load it so I took a guess.  I 
> cd/nitros9/6809l2/bootlists and seen (2) files dw.bl and standard.bl.
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> Well I edited the two files and took out the * in front the 
> ../modules/scf/scdwp.dr and also ../modules/scf/p_scdwp.dd
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> Then I quit the editor and closed out vcc and restarted it
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> I type at the shell <load drivewire_mods>  and I can get the drive in 
> drive wire to work but I cannot get the dir /p to work keeps saying 
> error221 module not found
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> Sorry for being a pain in the ass  any help would be appreciated
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> Thanks a lot
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> Richard Hawk
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Richard,

There are a number of things you are confused about which is easy for beginners with NitrOS-9. :)

Since you have managed to boot NitrOS-9, you must have mounted the .vhd in VCC and not on Drivewire.
You seem to have assumed that modifying one of the bootlist files would do something to build the required modules. That will not happen. In fact nothing other than changing the bootlist will happen.
You have made an incorrect assumption abut what is contained in the file CMDS/drivewire_mods. If you do an "ident cmds/drivewire_mods" you will see that only a disk driver and descriptors are contained in that merged file.

What you actually want is to "load printer_mods" as that file contains the Drivewire printer driver and descriptor.

The purpose of the bootlists is to create new bootable disk images. That is done with the scripts that are found in the directory NitrOS9/6809L2/scripts . These scripts make use of the bootlist files.

Robert


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