[Coco] NitrOS9 and 6309 code

[Stephen Fischer]

As I said to Allen, the 50% shell likely was on the version of NotrOS-9 
that was offered on the original VCC page. Version (1.3.4) comes to mind.

SHF

On 6/10/2019 4:54 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> Here's the module sizes for the "current" shell and the "shellp0lus2.2a" found on RTSI:
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> Current Shell:
> $1B57
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> ShellPlus 2.2a:
> $1B3C
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> hmmmm... looks to me like something was added... not taken away.
> Or, you could be referring to the "Shell2.1" that is also on the current distro disks... The asm sources states that this is the "stock" Microware shell... so yes... it will be smaller... and no... it would not have the enhancements as they were added by others. This is actually the Shell used in the L1 distros.
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> Repo "Standard" Shell 2.1 (Note: NOT ShellPlus):
> $18B3
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Jun 10, 2019 7:28 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 and 6309 code
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>> On Jun 9, 2019, at 10:51 PM, Stephen Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> There are many other changes beyond the shell that broke my work. Many are changes for the good.
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> It would be helpful to know what was broken. Since I still have 2.1 through 2.2a on my system, and all old versions are still as available today as they were back then (when you had to download them and add them to stock OS-9), I don’t see what changed beyond what comes in “new stock.”
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> At what point did you notice the size of Shell shrinking? From what I can see (-1995, 2015-) the shell has continually increased in size.
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>> Still I still would like to look at the original source code to see if there was a simple way to pass parameters to scripts converted using the datamod program. That was the biggest shortcoming which has stuck in my mind.
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> Having sources would be useful. Who wrote the original?
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> Does Shell+ have the ability to read configs from a startup file (like .profile or .login and such)?
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>> I would like someone besides Allen to check the size of the NitrOS-9 shell in the latest version and to compare with the shellplus 2.2a that was also distributed. If I was doing anything useful I would change away from the 50% sized shell for sure.
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> What size is the one you have?
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