read new nonstop follow 87463 20-MAY 00:22 General Information RE: Holiday Inn Elgin Phone Rates (Re: Msg 87458) From: BOISY To: WA2EGP Well, if it's a per call rate and not a measured service, I can deal with that. Things are winding down here. Tomorrow morning James and I head east to Chicago. See you there. -*- 87468 20-MAY 04:10 General Information RE: Holiday Inn Elgin Phone Rates (Re: Msg 87442) From: DGANTZ To: BOISY I don't know specifically about their rates, but I would wager to guess that modem phone calls through a local access number during non-peak hours won 't cost you anymore than a voice call from the same number. What I would wager is that many hotels/motels/etc. still have their own internal switchboard and that might cause you unwanted line noise for modem calls. Also, have you thought about the bumps and potholes in regards to your hard drive. Just the right one could (not likely, but could never the less) cause you head to move and screw up your hard drive. Doesn't really answer your question, but I hope it help. Dave -*- 87479 20-MAY 23:08 General Information RE: Holiday Inn Elgin Phone Rates (Re: Msg 87463) From: WA2EGP To: BOISY Unforch, I won't be able to go. And I even had money to get a bunch of goodies. Figures. If I had no money, then I could go ;->. I'll just drool while I read about all the great deals people got on hardware and software. (grin) Have fun! -*- End of Thread. -*- 87464 20-MAY 00:24 Applications (6809) Unix Cat From: ILLUSIONIST To: ALL Hello all, I have just finished getting a new "version" of the UNIX "cat" utility working under OS-9/6809 ...the one I had from the databases on here (OS-9 User Group) was not as robust as I liked, so I went about writing a new one. The version I have working now has most UNIX options working, plus it has a few more (-f will filter out all control characters, making it do the job of an LF filter, and -e will "echo" the output to StdERR) -e will com in handy if the user does something like this : cat -e file.name > /p since STDout gets re-directed to /p, the user wont be able to see the file on his/her screen.. with -e it will print it to both the screen and printer, without the need of "tee". control char. expansion is working to.. so all controls become ^ -t will expand all tabs to spaces.. I will probably upload it sometime soon (perhaps with the next batch of Basic09 subroutines).. but I dont know when that will be.. if anyone wants a "working" cat (oh yeah, all error messages are actually reported now.. instead of error #001 always being reported..) just let me know and I will upload it.. -* Mike -*- 87484 21-MAY 22:20 Applications (6809) RE: Unix Cat (Re: Msg 87464) From: TEDJAEGER To: ILLUSIONIST Oh yes, upload that! Sounds like a very useful addition to my CoCo! Bests ---TedJaeger -*- 87538 25-MAY 08:24 Applications (6809) RE: Unix Cat (Re: Msg 87484) From: ILLUSIONIST To: TEDJAEGER (NR) Ok, my CoCo is all apart right now.. as soon as I get the it back up.. I will upload it.. -* Mike -*- End of Thread. -*- 87465 20-MAY 00:28 Telecom (6809) RE: Supercomm... (Re: Msg 87085) From: TONYPODRAZA To: 10BAUD (NR) You could also use the shell call from Osterm and do the same thing by redirecting the output to t2 from that shell. When you're done listing, exit from the shell and violin! you're back in Osterm...no drop in carrier nor nuttin. -*- 87466 20-MAY 01:11 General Information RE: Printout (Re: Msg 87459) From: REVWCP To: ISC Dear Bill: I will keep you posted if anything developes in this project. With all best wishes, Brother Jeremy, CSJW OS9 User's Group Treasurer -*- 87467 20-MAY 03:15 Telecom (6809) SuperComm From: MMCCLELLAND To: RANDYKWILSON Randy- Thanks for the help. I installed the /dd driver, and I seem to have less problems with everything. Thanx again! -Mark -*- 87469 20-MAY 04:22 Games & Graphics RE: Fortune (Re: Msg 87346) From: JEVESTAL To: PHXKEN (NR) > Can someone with access to Chestnut GET Scott McGee's Star Trek fortune > program and put it up here? It is said to be under pub/OSK/MISC. Thx! Is there a reason why you can't FTP it yourself? On Delphi here just type GO INT FTP, then chestnut.cs.wisc.edu, then cd to the "OSK/MISC" directory. I downloaded it a while back. It's a rather large file and I don't want to have to re-upload it to my workspace, since I'm over 20 hours this month and have to cut back on accessing Delphi for a while. Jim -*- 87470 20-MAY 07:51 General Information RE: Panasonic Printer (Re: Msg 87413) From: MROWEN01 To: CPERRAULT Hi, I have used the blue streak adapter with many printers, most recently my new Cannon BJ-200e. The adapter has been good, but I occationally have to adjust the potentiometer on the board to get the timing in sync. If you open the case up, there is only one potentiometer on the board. You can turn this to adjust it with a small screwdriver. Your adapter and the speed of the serial connection should always be the same. The reason you can get garbage when the speeds are mis-matched is because the asyncronous data get's misinterpretted as valid bytes that can be printed. To see if this is the problem, set the blue streak adapter to the speed you want, then match the Coco speed with xmode. Print something of good length. While it's printing, slowly adjust the potentiometer on the adapter. Be careful not to turn the potentiometer in either direction past it's limits. It should move freely and easily. Eventually you should get it adjusted to the point where you get valid text. If you are not getting but one line of stuff on your page, make sure that you have lf set with xmode for /p. I hope this helps. If I can assist you further let me know. I had a friend who went through three blue streak adapters thinking they were all bad. I was able to get the two bad ones working just by adjusting the pot. Most of the time, this adjustment will do the trick. -Mike Rowen -*- 87489 22-MAY 16:43 General Information RE: Panasonic Printer (Re: Msg 87470) From: DBREEDING To: MROWEN01 > I have used the blue streak adapter with many printers, most > recently my new Cannon BJ-200e. The adapter has been good, but I > occationally have to adjust the potentiometer on the board to get the > timing in sync. If you open the case up, there is only one potentiometer This is addressed to you, but maybe CPERRAULT will see it.. Under OS9, would it be possible to get them matched up with "TUNEPORT" ? BTW.. I once had a home-made serial adaptor that had a tendency to drift, especially with heat, but also with time.. Can't remember whether I ever used "tuneport" or not. -- David Breeding -- CompuServe : 72330,2051 Delphi : DBREEDING *** Sent via CoCo-InfoXpress V1.01 *** ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ -*- 87494 22-MAY 22:08 General Information RE: Panasonic Printer (Re: Msg 87489) From: CPERRAULT To: DBREEDING re:tuneport I'm honestly not sure. I've asked that to myself recently, but since I've never used tuneport, I have no way of knowing. That is probably the only stock OS-9 command I haven't touched yet. >Chris< -*- 87496 22-MAY 22:09 General Information RE: Panasonic Printer (Re: Msg 87470) From: CPERRAULT To: MROWEN01 Thanks for the response Mike. Here's an update since the last post. It WORKS! And I didn't even have to modify a thing. I don't know what I did wrong the first time. I think I might have THOUGHT I had the switched lined up with the 2400/9600 side of the selector, when in fact it was way over on the 300 baud side. I could have sworn I had it right the first time, but when I hooked it back up, the switch was pointed to 300 baud or one of the two next to it. Maybe I had it wrong, or it got switched there after I disconnected the printer the first time. Either way, the point is, it WORKS now, and I'm like a baby in a candy store. I have it running at 9600 and already have printed out a ton of labels plus documentation on all that shareware stuff I've been wanting to read up on. Call it a hangup but for some reason I rather have a hardcopy in my hands rather than have to switch to another window while I'm running a program. Now I can finally study those docs I've been putting off for so long :-) Thanks for the advice. I'll try to remember that for later See Ya >Chris< -*- 87503 23-MAY 11:59 General Information RE: Panasonic Printer (Re: Msg 87496) From: MROWEN01 To: CPERRAULT Glad to hear you're printing OK now! -Mike -*- End of Thread. -*- 87471 20-MAY 07:54 OSK Applications RE: PGP for OSK? (Re: Msg 87390) From: MROWEN01 To: WA2EGP You are correct about the citizens of Switzerland. Everyone there serves in a national reserve program. Does anyone have contact with OS-9 users in Switzerland? (you can conceal your conversation by linking it to the forum topic). -Mike -*- 87472 20-MAY 18:11 General Information Fest From: REVWCP To: ALL The Monk Mobile is on the road. See you later tonight. With all best wishes, Brother Jeremy, CSJW OS9 User's Group Treasurer -*- 87473 20-MAY 19:25 General Information RE: hi! (Re: Msg 87302) From: JOSEFL To: PHILSCHERER Interesting. Where did you hear that? -*- 87486 22-MAY 09:17 General Information RE: hi! (Re: Msg 87473) From: PHILSCHERER To: JOSEFL (NR) Hi Jos--I was talking to someone in sales at Microware. -*- End of Thread. -*- 87474 20-MAY 19:39 General Information RE: Colani Mouse (Re: Msg 87322) From: JOSEFL To: JEJONES Cool! I'm glad you are enjoying your desktop rodent. I hate trackballs too. Hope you are having other fun as well these days, my friend! Jo-buddy, Jo-sef -*- 87514 23-MAY 22:25 General Information RE: Colani Mouse (Re: Msg 87474) From: JEJONES To: JOSEFL (NR) > Hope you are having other fun as well these days, my friend! Aye, that I am...though things may get a bit hectic for a week. In particular, it was major fun going to and attending the Third Annual Last CoCoFest (coming back wasn't quite as much fun, because we were trying to get back as early as possible to make sure we actually got some sleep). Perfect weather, no traffic problems. Opinions herein are solely those of their respective authors. Clipper Chip: Big Brother Inside -*- 87527 24-MAY 23:09 General Information RE: Colani Mouse (Re: Msg 87514) From: JOHNREED To: JEJONES > In particular, it was major fun going to and attending the Third > Annual Last CoCoFest (coming back wasn't quite as much fun, because > we were trying to get back as early as possible to make sure we > actually got some sleep). Perfect weather, no traffic problems. We had fun too, James and I know why you reported no traffic problems. EVERY traffic cone and EVERY construction company in the State of Illinois was placed along the highways between Elgin and the Michigan Line. ******************************** If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs ----- you probably don't understand the situation John R. Wainwright <> <> -*- 87530 24-MAY 23:27 General Information RE: Colani Mouse (Re: Msg 87527) From: JRUPPEL To: JOHNREED John, You have discovered the secret of Indiana: there are two seasons- winter and Road Under Construction! It took us over an hour to make it to the Michigan line from Gary! BUT that was the only bad part of the whole weekend. It gave us extra time to speculate on the future------ Great Fest, Glenside!!!!!!! John Ruppel Lansing Area CCUG -*- End of Thread. -*- 87475 20-MAY 19:41 General Information RE: OS9000 file transfer (Re: Msg 87372) From: JOSEFL To: PHILSCHERER You also need the PCF ms-dos file manager. I didn't think that came with standard OS-9000 package. Am I wrong on this? Somebody tell me if I am... Jos -*- 87487 22-MAY 09:20 General Information RE: OS9000 file transfer (Re: Msg 87475) From: PHILSCHERER To: JOSEFL (NR) Ya know Jos I'll have to check on that. I thought I had it but Ihaven't had the time to check. I'll let you know. -*- End of Thread. -*- 87476 20-MAY 20:34 General Information info From: ROBERT84 To: ALL Is there any program for the coco like dlite? Something that will mass down load forum messages for reading later. Thanks, Bob -*- 87480 21-MAY 09:05 General Information RE: info (Re: Msg 87476) From: JOHNBAER To: ROBERT84 Bob, > Is there any program for the coco like dlite? Something that will mass > down load forum messages for reading later. Yes, it's called InfoXpress and is written by Bill Dickhaus, sold by Mark Griffith (MARKGRIFFITH) here on Delphi. It works with Delphi and Compuserve right now. I believe the price is about $50.00 for the CoCo, and $70.00 for the OSK version. Ask Mark here or send him mail.. he will get back to you. -- John - *** Posted with Ved 2.3 & IX 1.0.1 *** -*- End of Thread. -*- 87477 20-MAY 20:50 General Information info From: ROBERT84 To: ALL a message asking if anyone knew anything about the program CCtools, and how to get a hold of the author to get the required modules to take out the annoying green screen. Does anyone out there know anything about this program, or how I can reach its authors? I would really appreciate any help. Thanks, Bob -*- 87478 20-MAY 21:34 General Information RE: Coco stuff for sale (Re: Msg 87461) From: MRGOOD To: TAULBORG The drive is a Seagate ST-225 half height 5.25" form factor drive, MFM (I used it with my B&B). Let me think about the price... Hugo -*- 87483 21-MAY 15:11 General Information RE: Coco stuff for sale (Re: Msg 87478) From: TAULBORG To: MRGOOD PLEASE think hard about the price of the hard drive and case becuase I can only spend about $50 including shipping because I have a kid comeing in august and Everting has to be paid for by the end of next month so cash is realy hard to come by right now,but I REALY WANT a second drive!! Steven P Taulborg -*- End of Thread. -*- 87481 21-MAY 10:10 General Information No Show to Fest From: DISTO To: ALL Sorry, I can not be at the fest. I was refused entry by US Customs. Something about bringing in merchandise into US. I have been doing this for 10 years. GO FIGURE! -Tony. -*- 87482 21-MAY 13:17 General Information RE: No Show to Fest (Re: Msg 87481) From: MRGOOD To: DISTO (NR) Hmm, what ever happened to the North American Free Trade agreement? Strange.... Hugo -*- 87485 21-MAY 22:37 General Information RE: No Show to Fest (Re: Msg 87482) From: WA2EGP To: MRGOOD I think that was only for south of the US, not north. (Only joking) -*- 87490 22-MAY 16:43 General Information RE: No Show to Fest (Re: Msg 87481) From: DBREEDING To: DISTO (NR) > Sorry, I can not be at the fest. I was refused entry by US Customs. > Something about bringing in merchandise into US. I have been doing this > for 10 years. GO FIGURE! -Tony. Hey! That really stinks! Will you still be able to ship stuff to us? I won't be at the fest either, but I'm sure that you will be missed. -- David Breeding -- CompuServe : 72330,2051 Delphi : DBREEDING *** Sent via CoCo-InfoXpress V1.01 *** ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ -*- 87522 24-MAY 01:10 General Information RE: No Show to Fest (Re: Msg 87481) From: MITHELEN To: DISTO (NR) Wow...! I've never heard of this happening to anyone coming to a Fest before... We all missed you... but on a brighter side note, I was relieved I didn't have to pick you up Saturday morning at the airpirt... It would have been a rough drive over there after the preceeding nights festivities... -- Paul -*- End of Thread. -*- 87488 22-MAY 09:54 General Information OS9000 COPY From: PHILSCHERER To: COLORSYSTEMS Hi Zack--I tried the command you gave me in your message 87350 and I get an error 221. I looked on page B-1 and it gives a list of descriptors and that's it. -*- 87526 24-MAY 21:28 General Information RE: OS9000 COPY (Re: Msg 87488) From: COLORSYSTEMS To: PHILSCHERER (NR) > Hi Zack--I tried the command you gave me in your message 87350 and I get > an error 221. I looked on page B-1 and it gives a list of descriptors and > that's it. What was the EXACT command you did? Did you set you current data directory to that directory and see if the file indeed is there? The load command assumes the file is in the current EXECUTION directory. To force it to use the current data directory use the -d command line option. Sorry for the delay, just got back from the fest. ------------------------------------ Zack C Sessions "We did not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrowed it from our descendants." Ancient proverb -*- End of Thread. -*- 87491 22-MAY 19:06 General Information Chet Simpson From: RICKMAC To: ALL Has anyone else who ordered stuff from Mr. Simpson about 3 months ago recieved anything? I was suprised that Friday(5/20) a package was delivered that contained one of the two items I had sent him money for. Seems he has moved to Ohio. Don't know why he moved, but it sure would have been nice to hear from him concerning the delays in shipping items. -*- 87492 22-MAY 20:00 General Information RE: Chet Simpson (Re: Msg 87491) From: JRUPPEL To: RICKMAC I haven't heard a thing, and I'd like to have Mr. Simpson's address, if you would drop it to me in E-mail. Thanks, John Ruppel -*- 87493 22-MAY 20:05 General Information RE: Chet Simpson (Re: Msg 87492) From: RICKMAC To: JRUPPEL ok, will do. -*- 87498 22-MAY 22:47 General Information RE: Chet Simpson (Re: Msg 87491) From: MRUPGRADE To: RICKMAC I too would like theh new address? Til then,,, Terry Simons -*- End of Thread. -*- 87495 22-MAY 22:08 General Information RE: Computers (Re: Msg 87429) From: CPERRAULT To: COCOKIWI Re: Commodore is no More. That's too bad :-( The Amiga sure looked and sounded like a nice machine. I was just thinking of how nice it was to have at least one alternative to the Mac and Intel machines. They all have their good sides, but still I liked the fact that the Amiga and Atari machines were still evolving. I guess that leaves one more door open for us tho ;-) >Chris< -*- 87497 22-MAY 22:46 General Information RE: Computers (Re: Msg 87429) From: MRUPGRADE To: COCOKIWI FLASH #2 Amiga will continue,, as per msg # 25504 on th Delphi Amiga Sig,, there were 3 large Companies,, ready to pick up theh ball. One will. Amiga is just a tad big,, from theh user standpoint to get tucked in that easy. Til then,,, Terry Simons -*- 87502 23-MAY 06:17 General Information RE: Computers (Re: Msg 87497) From: COCOKIWI To: MRUPGRADE I had figured SOMEONE would pick up the ball! AMEGIAS are to popular to dump completlywish the same could be said for our Coco! Dennis -*- End of Thread. -*- 87501 23-MAY 02:04 Telecom (6809) InfoExpress From: RICHKOTTKE To: ALL Could someone please tell me how to get a copy of InfoExpress? I looked for it at the Chicago Fest but couldn't find a copy ... .. (of course now somebody will tell me that so-and-so was selling it at the fest ) .... -Rich -*- 87506 23-MAY 20:42 Telecom (6809) RE: InfoExpress (Re: Msg 87501) From: JOHNREED To: RICHKOTTKE > Could someone please tell me how to get a copy of InfoExpress? I looked > for it at the Chicago Fest but couldn't find a copy ... > > .. (of course now somebody will tell me that so-and-so was selling it at > the fest ) .... > > -Rich > Well, somebody would have been selling it at the fest, but Mark Griffith didn't make it. Car trouble was the problem, according to the info I got. If Mark doesn't pick up on this and reply to your message, send a query to MARKGRIFFITH. ******************************** If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs ----- you probably don't understand the situation John R. Wainwright <> <> -*- End of Thread. -*- 87504 23-MAY 19:25 General Information Looking for Bill Wittman From: KEITHBAUER To: ALL I am looking for Bill Wittman's Email address. Here on Delphi, CIS or the internet is fine. Thanks Keith Bauer CIS:71102,317 Delphi:keithbauer Internet:kbauer@pids.com -*- 87505 23-MAY 20:42 General Information RE: Looking for Bill Wittman (Re: Msg 87504) From: JOHNREED To: KEITHBAUER > I am looking for Bill Wittman's Email address. Here on Delphi, CIS or > the internet is fine. > > Thanks > > Keith Bauer > > CIS:71102,317 Delphi:keithbauer Internet:kbauer@pids.com > Keith, Here's the internet address he gave me some time ago ww2150Aacspr1.acs.brockport.edu ******************************** If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs ----- you probably don't understand the situation John R. Wainwright <> <> -*- 87524 24-MAY 20:44 General Information RE: Looking for Bill Wittman (Re: Msg 87505) From: KEITHBAUER To: JOHNREED > > Keith, > Here's the internet address he gave me some time ago > > ww2150Aacspr1.acs.brockport.edu Thanks John, I will try him there, if no luck I will go with go old AT&T. Keith Bauer CIS:71102,317 Delphi:keithbauer Internet:kbauer@pids.com -*- End of Thread. -*- 87507 23-MAY 21:28 System Modules (6809) Ramdisk problems From: JRUPPEL To: ALL Has anyone had any problems with the R0_720K ramdisk found here in the database running a 2-meg? Ever since I upgraded I get an error 241-Sector Error when I use diskcopy to copy to it. I also have a 6309 and Powerboost. BTW, the Fest was a GAS! John Ruppel -*- 87508 23-MAY 21:28 General Information Fest From: REVWCP To: ALL To all who were at the fest this weekend: Thank you for making this weekend so special for me. It was wonderful to see so many of you again. Thank you for all the kind words, the sharing of knowledge, of friendship begun, and friendships renewed. It truly gets harder to leave each year. Thank you for sharing a part of you with me. With all best wishes, Brother Jeremy, CSJW OS9 User's Group Treasurer -*- 87509 23-MAY 21:35 General Information RE: Fest (Re: Msg 87508) From: JRUPPEL To: REVWCP Brother Jeremy, the pleasure was indeed ours! This weekend was indeed a very special time. I finally have FACES to go with the names here! Let us do all we can to CONTINUE the Coco Community! See ya in Atlanta? John Ruppel -*- 87517 23-MAY 22:59 General Information RE: Fest (Re: Msg 87509) From: REVWCP To: JRUPPEL God willing, this year in Atlanta. With all best wishes, Brother Jeremy, CSJW OS9 User's Group Treasurer -*- 87528 24-MAY 23:11 General Information RE: Fest (Re: Msg 87517) From: JRUPPEL To: REVWCP Maybe Atlanta...My wife wants to come to the next one! DeColores! John Ruppel -*- End of Thread. -*- 87510 23-MAY 21:40 General Information RE: lha/Nitro (Re: Msg 87398) From: VE3DAC To: BANANAMAN Thanks for the report Andy. I tried your method and I still have a problem. What happens to me and one other local user, Lha freezes the first file and then just comes to a halt. It will sit there all night. Pressing Break wakes up lha and it exits. The new 'C' version does the exact same thing. I may have to take a Nitro computer over to Gene Krenciglowa so he can work on it. Lha 'B' and C both work fine under the 6809 mode. Gene K. has installed Powerbost on his machine and has done some things to make LHA211c work better with a 6309. I'll upload it today so all you users can pickup a more robust and faster LHA. Merv -*- 87511 23-MAY 21:46 General Information RE: lha/Nitro (Re: Msg 87402) From: VE3DAC To: WDTV5 Thanks for the reply Gene. I wonder how your version of Nitro differs from 1.16 that I'm using. I saw your upgrade to RBF? but I haven't installed it yet. Hmm m m this is interesting. Supplying a memory modifier worked for Andy, but not me. If those using LHZ used the -e option then those archives can be unarch'd with LZH7 and LHA. LZH makes non standard headers as a normal operation. I find LHA pretty quick and use it exclusively now. If you can add any more hints, we'd be interested. Merv -*- 87512 23-MAY 21:50 General Information RE: lha/Nitro (Re: Msg 87456) From: VE3DAC To: DBREEDING As I mentioned in some other messages, LZH doesn't comply with the standard LZH headers unless the archive is made with the -e option. Best to stick with unlzh7 or lha, thats my suggestion. Merv -*- 87520 23-MAY 23:19 General Information RE: lha/Nitro (Re: Msg 87511) From: WDTV5 To: VE3DAC (NR) I can't add much else to that, other than recommend you put the revised RBF.mn in as it restores the "UnDel" ability which was lost when Wes converted it to Nitro1.16. I suspect that Wes was using the distribution RBF.mn as the model, where I used the last "Cristmas present" from Kevin as the model. Unforch, this is for Nitro systems only (possibly for PBoost too). Normal systems don't need it IF they are already using the Christmas (1992?) rbf release. What were we refering too with the "memory modifier", I've forgotten I'm sorry to say. Cheers Merv, Gene -*- End of Thread. -*- 87513 23-MAY 22:22 General Information RE: patches (Re: Msg 87064) From: NEALSTEWARD To: DBREEDING I am not in need of a w/p, I use Window Writer. It is a mouse driven interface with pull down menus, with outstanding features. It should have become the OS-9 standard. Thanks for the info on VED anyway, I have seen it demoed at a club meeting. Looks like a great screen editor. -*- 87516 23-MAY 22:30 General Information RE: patches (Re: Msg 87066) From: NEALSTEWARD To: MITHELEN You must have seen an earlier version of WW because the one I received is a full featured, bug-free, mouse driven word processor/formatter. If any of the older ones (ie: ScreenStar DynaStar, etc) were ever upgraded, I'm sure they would have been far superior to WW, but that didn't happen, so we have to live with what is available now. WW's only minor fault is that most of it is written in Basic09, but any routines that require speed are written in assembly. If 2.0 is ever rewritten in C as suggested in a Rainbow collumn, it should really fly... I won't hold my breath though. -*- 87521 24-MAY 00:53 General Information RE: patches (Re: Msg 87516) From: MITHELEN To: NEALSTEWARD (NR) Welp... I don't recall off had what versions I had (I had the original version, and then got an update a few months after I bought it) The big gripe that I had with the version I used, was, the support for proportional printing, and full justification (with micro spaceing) never worked, which was one of the primary reasons that I bought it in the first place (ie, those features were advertised to be supported) -- Paul -*- End of Thread. -*- 87515 23-MAY 22:26 General Information 3rd Last CoCoFest From: JEJONES To: ALL I figured I should post a message thanking all the folks who made the Third Annual Last CoCoFest possible, and hitting the highlights (as I saw them, and purely IMHO, of course--your mileage may vary, and I'm liable to forget about stuff and people, for which omission I ask your indulgence). No way can I match the Sub-Etha folks at turning the story of the trip into a true saga, so I'll just say that the trip to Elgin was so darned nice that I figured that back in Des Moines my place was burning down, just to even things out. :-) (Since I'm typing this, of course, my domicile is intact.) The weather was about as perfect as it could be, my wraparound yellow sunglasses (from WalMart--nothing but the best for *my* dog) made the grass look even greener than it really was, and traffic was no problem. Many familiar faces were there (sad to say, some weren't--I'd have liked to see Frank Hogg, Ed Gresick, Tony DiStefano, and Mark Griffith again), and new ones: I finally got to meet David Graham and Chris Dekker. I wasn't able to attend all the seminars, but Allen Huffman (gee, no bathrobe or modern PVC sculpture!) gave an inspirational talk about the CoCo, Boisy Pitre gave a good overview of OS-9/68000 3.0, and some guy talked about the Ultra C compiler. Speaking of inspirational, Carl Boll was just that at the OS-9 UG meeting. His main point merits repetition here: let the Board of Directors know what you think. I can't talk inspiration without mentioning Brother Jeremy. Over and above the religious aspect (his non-denominational prayer service is becoming a tradition), he carried with him something that surprised me: source code for Max-10. Brother Jeremy contacted Max-10's author, and has permission from him to do a port to OS-9. By evening's end, some very good people (*sigh* I don't count myself among good 6809 people in that regard) were discussing how to go about it. ENTER EDITORIAL MODE (do note the disclaimer at the bottom of the message): IMHO Brother Jeremy's getting that permission is a considerable achievement for the CoCo community. If, as I hope, Max-10 becomes a successful example of software being updated and improved by the community itself, perhaps authors of other CoCo packages will be willing to enter similar arrangements. If the community had taken the position that Max-10, as software no longer being sold, was fair game for theft as so-called "orphanware," I seriously doubt that Max-10's author would have been anywhere near as amenable. EXIT EDITORIAL MODE. I spent too much money, of course/as usual. Many programs are much improved, not that they were any slouches before: Chris Hawke's Sound, Mike Knudsen's UltiMusE, Neil Brookins's Bible concordance and search program, and OSTerm/68K are the ones that come to mind and that I am familiar with; I'm sure there were others I overlooked. (A particularly striking demonstration was a bouncing ball demo running on a stock CoCo and on a CoCo with 6309 under NitrOS-9. NitrOS-9 makes a HUGE difference.) Then there's the new stuff: I'm going to spend way too much time playing Zack Sessions's K-Windows Chess, darn it--I already spend too much time playing Tiles. Ditto for BudgetWare's Trek 1.5, which updates the old style Trek games. I'm not in the market for a point of sale system, but Wittman Computer Products had a fine looking one on display. Chris Dekker was at a table with FARNA Systems, showing off, among other things, some neat graphics and a port of Terry Simons's "HomePac" package to OS-9/6809 (Chris added some features while he was at it, and it certainly looked fast). This is purely from the top of my head--as the famous guy whose name I don't remember said, I lack the time to make it short, and moreover I'm leaving out a lot, like the expedition in search of the nation's best pizza :-). If you were at the Fest, it was good to see you. If you weren't, try to attend next year, and try to make it to Atlanta--it's on for October 1-2. Opinions herein are solely those of their respective authors. Clipper Chip: Big Brother Inside -*- 87519 23-MAY 23:14 General Information MAX-10/OS9 From: REVWCP To: ALL Dear Friends: If you have not heard, I was privelaged to announce at the fest that my long awaited dream is to become a reality. Max-10 is going to be ported to OS-9. You might remember a message entitled MONK NEEDS STAMPE... I was able to locate Dave Stampe and he graciously gave me a copy of the source to MAX-10. In print out it is well over three inches thick. We have a team of programmers in place. It was wonderful to see the looks of excitement on the teams faces. (My gosh, they are all so young. I felt like the elder statesman. I think that they are one of the most impressive group of people that I have had the pleasure to spend time with.) I will keep you posted as things develope. With all best wishes, Brother Jeremy, CSJW OS9 User's Group Treasurer -*- 87533 25-MAY 00:40 General Information RE: MAX-10/OS9 (Re: Msg 87519) From: ISC To: REVWCP The port of Max-10 is great news, Brother J. Now we can have those 300 dpi fonts! Bill -*- End of Thread. -*- 87523 24-MAY 19:47 General Information Rat Shack special From: COLORSYSTEMS To: ALL Hey!! How many of y'all got a pre-approved $500 credit line at Radio Shack this week? Seems that Tandy sent out $6,000,000 worth of pre-approved credit accounts this week to selected Tandy customers. I promptly went right to the limit on mine with a top of the line hand held scanner, the PRO-43. I LIKE IT!! ------------------------------------ Zack C Sessions "We did not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrowed it from our descendants." Ancient proverb -*- 87529 24-MAY 23:20 General Information RE: Rat Shack special (Re: Msg 87523) From: JEJONES To: COLORSYSTEMS (NR) > Hey!! How many of y'all got a pre-approved $500 credit line at Radio > Shack this week? Seems that Tandy sent out $6,000,000 worth of > pre-approved credit accounts this week to selected Tandy customers. Guess I'm among the "selected" customers. I doubt that I'll take advantage of the offer, though; I don't have any credit cards. (Guess I don't quite trust myself with one.) Opinions herein are solely those of their respective authors. Clipper Chip: Big Brother Inside -*- 87532 25-MAY 00:32 General Information RE: Rat Shack special (Re: Msg 87529) From: MITHELEN To: JEJONES Ya.. I got one of them ofers too... Guess they will pre-approve just about anyone... I don't think I will use it... I'm way too far in debt right now. Can't wait to get my car paid off (7 more payments!) Then I can start working on reduceing my credit cards by leaps and bounds... Thats one of the problems with running a BBS and haveing available credit... you tend to use it when you have hardware problems. -- Paul -*- 87535 25-MAY 02:37 General Information RE: Rat Shack special (Re: Msg 87523) From: COCOKIWI To: COLORSYSTEMS (NR) Why a Pro-43? I got a Pro-46? Cheeeeeperon sale!$183.95.. one would have had MORE loot to spend! I had a a pre ap...MASTER CARD $3000 .......lower interest! Dennis -*- End of Thread. -*- 87525 24-MAY 21:14 General Information Memory management From: MROWEN01 To: ALL First of all, I'm glad to hear such good reports from the fest. I couldn't make it, but I have it on my calender fro next year! It sounds as though some great things are going on! I have a Coco3 with OS/9 level 2. I love OS/9 and I use many apps and understand most of the system commands, but I am having difficulty gleaning an understanding from the manual about memory management. Can anyone enlighten this ignorant soul? I have a text file I want to edit. It's 184K. When I do a mfree I get a total free memory of 384k, but I get a 207 error when I try to edit the file. My editor is already loaded into RAM at this point. I have heard some discourse about 8k blocks being allocated when merging system modules, but I fall short of grasping the entire mess. The book seems to give out little pieces of the puzzle here and there, but I can't seem to pull things together. I'm suprised there is no tutorial about memory management in the database. Perhaps it's so essential that none has been thought to be necessary. I've been "lucky" so far. I appreciate any help that can be offered. Thanks! -Mike Rowen -*- 87531 25-MAY 00:27 General Information RE: Memory management (Re: Msg 87525) From: MITHELEN To: MROWEN01 Under the current way that OS-9 Level 2 works on the CoCo 3, There is no way for a program to _simply_ use more then 64K total for its program space, and data space. Programs have to be specially written in order to access more than that. There are a few programs for the CoCo that pull off some tricks to get access to more then 64K, but I don't know of any editors that do so. -*- 87534 25-MAY 01:37 General Information RE: Memory management (Re: Msg 87531) From: MROWEN01 To: MITHELEN (NR) You are right, I see. I'm using Ved and I see it's limit is 53KB. I guess I'll have to break it into smaller pieces. Thanks. -Mike -*- 87537 25-MAY 07:59 General Information RE: Memory management (Re: Msg 87525) From: JEJONES To: MROWEN01 (NR) > I have a text file I want to edit. It's 184K. When I do a mfree I > get a total free memory of 384k, but I get a 207 error when I try to > edit the file. My editor is already loaded into RAM at this point. That does seem sort of counterintuitive...but the reason is this: the 6809 has a 64K address space, so that a single process can only get to 64K at a time. Under Level II, memory mapping will let you get to different pieces of memory (in 8K hunks on the CoCo 3, as you already know, because of the GIME design), but only 64K at any one time can be visible to a single process. The editor you're using either isn't designed to worry about files bigger than (64K minus the size of the editor and whatever ancillary data it uses), or it is so designed but isn't quite careful enough. Opinions herein are solely those of their respective authors. Clipper Chip: Big Brother Inside -*- End of Thread. -*- 87536 25-MAY 05:54 Telecom (6809) 9600 From: JEVESTAL To: ALL I just recently got a 14.4 Fax modem, a Best Data Smart One 1442FX. Does anybody here have one too? My CoCo 3 is an unmodified 6809 machine, I do not have a 6309 installed yet. I am usisng SACIA (Randy's high speed patches installed) with /t2 xmoded to par=12 and xtp=88. I use CoNect single RS-232 port (compat. with Tandy rs-232 pak). The is in slot one of my mpi (upgraded for CoCo 3). I am using ed. 9 clock for the BB XT-RTC. My modem is set as follows: Compression off and RTS/CTS hardware flow control (AT&K3%C0%M0&D2X4). I can't get reliable 9600 baud access at all. Calling Delphi on the 9600 Tymnet node yeilds dropped characters (average 1 or 2 per screen), I get the same results from local boards. I use Supercomm At 9600, Zmodem times out and Ymodem yeilds less than 450 CPS. This is on both Delphi and local boards. At 4800 baud the modem seems reliable if I do not do any multi-tasking (at 2400 I can multitask any program and still download without errors). Any sugestions on how I can get more reliable 9600 baud? Please do not respond "Get a 6309 with NitroOS9 (or Powerboost). I plan to do that one of the days but can't afford it now. 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