

#: 4130 S6/Applications
    06-Jun-90  01:49:24
Sb: #3915-AIF -> DYNACALC
Fm: Mike Stephenson 71655,415
To: TONY CAPPELLINI 76370,2104

~
Tony;

   Sorry for replying late .. I only get on here weekly.

   Zack's reply was right on the mark.  That is what I meant to say.  You
place an AIF file in your HD tree and it gets read throughout the system.
Because  DynaCalc  saves  its  files  with  a  '.cal'  extension  do  the
following. .

   Make  your  file AIF.cal and place it early in your tree.   Then  when
using Multi-Vue in other parts of your system, when MV comes upon the any
DynaCalc saved file with a '.cal' extension it refers back to the AIF.cal
file  and  loads  DynaCalc,  executes  it,  and  loads  the  '.cal'  file
automatically.

   I  didn't  say  RSDOS  version of Dynacalc.  I  said  RS-OS9.   In  my
previous message . .

>>>"There is a 'trick' to using the RS-OS9 version 1.0 of DYNACALC."<<<

Best,


Mike

#: 4131 S6/Applications
    06-Jun-90  01:49:36
Sb: #3941-AIF -> DYNACALC
Fm: Mike Stephenson 71655,415
To: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 (X)

~
Zack;

   Thanks   for  helping Tony out.  You were right.  Your explanation  of
using    AIF's   and multiple files was correct, and that is what  I  did
intend to say.

Best;

Mike

#: 4132 S10/Tandy CoCo
    06-Jun-90  01:49:48
Sb: #4109-/V0../V4
Fm: Mike Stephenson 71655,415
To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 (X)

~
Joe;

   Go  to  Library 10 and download WINVDG.AR.  It is by Bruce  Isted  and
contains  windows W thru W15 descriptors which are full 80 column screens
and  also  includes V1 thru V7 which are VDG.  Also includes the  source.
You will need AR to 'de-archive' this file.

Best;

Mike

#: 4133 S3/Languages
    06-Jun-90  06:01:43
Sb: BASIC09 Help
Fm: Floyd Resler 72500,2572
To: All

I'm having a problem with I-Code modules.  I'm working on a BBS and have the
most often used modules merged together and loaded into memory.  The other
modules I pull from disk when I need them.  After I use the module, I KILL it.
Using this method, I get no Module Not Found errors.  However, when I try to
call a module again that I previously called and KILLed, I get a memory full
error!  Why?

#: 4134 S10/Tandy CoCo
    06-Jun-90  06:18:57
Sb: #4126-#Reading disk tracks
Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)

Pete,

I'm not sure about that (reading a track of sectors, including the interrecord
gap stuff).  Wouldn't this be much like reading 16K or so of data from a file
using read()?  You don't get anything there except for the file data.  I know
this is different because the disk was opened as a file, but I believe all the
disk bilge is eaten by the controller and never seen at the applications level.

Maybe I'm confusing the issue -- does this guy want only a tracks worth of data
or does he also want the inter-record stuff?

Mark

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#: 4135 S10/Tandy CoCo
    06-Jun-90  10:01:04
Sb: #4134-Reading disk tracks
Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
To: Mark Griffith 76070,41

Mark -

If you read the Western Digital 1793 data sheet, look at the READ TRACK
command. That 'bilge' as you refer to it is stripped off only when you perform
normal sector reads. Track read is effectively the converse of track write
(which is what FORMAT uses to put all the lowe level data on the disk.. gaps
track & sector headers, and sector templates.

Pete

#: 4136 S10/Tandy CoCo
    06-Jun-90  12:37:57
Sb: #4123-Reading disk tracks
Fm: William Phelps 75100,265
To: Mark Griffith 76070,41

I don't mean read every sector on a track.  I am talking about doing a raw read
of the complete track.

William

#: 4137 S10/Tandy CoCo
    06-Jun-90  12:40:02
Sb: #4125-Reading disk tracks
Fm: William Phelps 75100,265
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)

I knew there was a reason I kept that DECB zapper around.

William

#: 4138 S7/Telecommunications
    06-Jun-90  17:57:01
Sb: UUCP
Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662
To: Mark Griffith

Mark,

Here's Bob's reply. I guess he's really interested in UUCP!


Msg#:28818 *COCO* 06/06/90 12:21:29 (Read 4 Times) From: BOB BILLSON
  To: HUGO BUENO (Rcvd) Subj: REPLY TO MSG# 28736 (UUCP) I forgot to add some
info yesterday.  Since I don't have a CI$ or Delphi account, tell Mark he can
reach me via UUCP.  My Internet address is:

kc2wz@ka2qhd.uucp       OR     kc2wz%ka2qhd@tsdiag.ccur.com

My UUCP "bang path" is:

   ...uunet!rutgers!tsdiag!ka2qhd!kc2wz

Bob Toegel, whom I mentioned is also very interested in getting involved in the
beat and bash testing, doesn't have a UUCP address....yet. :-)  I can relay any
messages to him.

#: 4139 S10/Tandy CoCo
    06-Jun-90  18:37:25
Sb: #BREAK KEY
Fm: PHIL SCHERER 71211,2545
To: ALL

Is there any way to disable the Break key in Basic09 ??

There is 1 Reply.

#: 4144 S10/Tandy CoCo
    06-Jun-90  22:25:23
Sb: #4139-BREAK KEY
Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
To: PHIL SCHERER 71211,2545

Phil -

You can to a few things:

1) Use the SHELL command to invoke a TMODE QUIT=0 ABORT=0

2) Better but harder, use the SYSCALL subroutines to do
   an i$getstt of the path's options (SS.OPT), modify the
   affected bytes, and then set 'em back in place with a
   i$setstt command

3) Use ON ERROR routines to trap the key

Note that while in the interpretive (non packed) mode, the break key is always
enabled as a means of debugging the program, or stopping a runaway routine.

Pete

#: 4140 S9/Utilities
    06-Jun-90  21:07:14
Sb: #Project Management
Fm: tom farrow 72701,543
To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)

Thankyou James but I really do not have the time or the inclination to get into
that type of programming yet I am fairly new to os9. Could there be a way of
getting MacProject II from the MacIntosh to the CoCo3?

There is 1 Reply.

#: 4142 S9/Utilities
    06-Jun-90  22:10:33
Sb: #4140-Project Management
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: tom farrow 72701,543

You'd have to talk to the folks who own MacProject II, or persuade a programmer
to do something similar for the CoCo.  (Now, Paul Ward et al. are working on
porting, or having someone port, applications to OS-9/68K for the MM/1, and I'd
be surprised if a scheduling/project management package hadn't crossed his
mind, though of course you'd have to ask him whether anything is being done.
The only association I have with the folks making the MM/1 is that I've already
sent off my deposit on ordering one when they finally officially come out.)

#: 4141 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    06-Jun-90  21:48:07
Sb: #OSk BASIC
Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524
To: ALL

Is OSK BASIC a tr{ue compiler or does {it generate IxD-Code like Basic09? t(
Sorry {for the line noi{se{{.

Zack

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#: 4143 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    06-Jun-90  22:11:02
Sb: #4141-OSk BASIC
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: Zack Sessions 76407,1524

It does in fact generate I-code like BASIC09.

Press <CR> !>