#: 18098 S1/General Interest 15-May-93 21:35:24 Sb: #18080-#get pwd in "C" Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) Yes, it is a little dangerous assuming anything, really, in regard to what someone else might have. I kinda hate to call a process in this way myself, but in a case like this, this would seem to be the only feasible way, except for writing the code to do so into the program. Hmm... I wonder if it would be good to incorporate a pwd function into the library??? Well, anyway, I figured that you already had the problem worked out, but I thought it would be interesting to shove the idea along anyway. Take care... David There is 1 Reply. #: 18105 S1/General Interest 18-May-93 00:29:55 Sb: #18098-get pwd in "C" Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 To: David Breeding 72330,2051 There's a pwd() function up in lib 12. #: 18099 S1/General Interest 17-May-93 10:48:19 Sb: #18094-#________ magazine. Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752 To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X) Mark, Are you still accepting suggestions for names for your mag? If so, how 'bout "OS-9 Post-Dispatch" Lee There is 1 Reply. #: 18109 S1/General Interest 18-May-93 05:49:14 Sb: #18099-________ magazine. Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41 To: Lee Veal 74726,1752 Lee, > Are you still accepting suggestions for names for your mag? > > If so, how 'bout "OS-9 Post-Dispatch" (grin) Thanks for the submission. I'll add it to the list of names to consider! /************* /\/\ark ************/ #: 18100 S1/General Interest 17-May-93 11:00:29 Sb: #OS-9 International Fm: Carsten B Emde 100034,372 To: All OS-9 International - The journal for OS-9/68K users and software developers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS-9 International is devoted to the operating system OS-9 that we feel would merit much more attention than it actually receives. The aim of this journal is, therefore, to confirm those peoples' decision who already work with OS-9 and to convince all others who do not yet. In order to reach this - admittedly ambitious - goal, OS-9 International will * maintain a list of OS-9 sites that have public domain software available * reserve pages for OS-9 user groups (OS-9 International is actually the official organ of the EFFO - The European Forum For OS-9) * present professional articles on software solutions for common problems * conduct software and hardware tests * print letters and short communications in order to establish a platform between OS-9 users and programmers * publish features of commercially available OS-9 software (maximally one product per issue) * contain advertisement for OS-9 related products. Please understand this message also as a call for papers: Take this opportunity to make OS-9 International a forum you want it to be. 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OS-9 International Hagentalerstrasse 12 CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland Phone +41 61 43 55 01 Fax +41 61 43 55 02 E-Mail os9int@msys.ch There is 1 Reply. #: 18101 S1/General Interest 17-May-93 18:59:57 Sb: #18100-#OS-9 International Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 To: Carsten B Emde 100034,372 (X) > How to subscribe to OS-9 International > -------------------------------------- > > To subscribe to OS-9 International, please send a fax message, a postcard or an > e-mail message to our office. Our address is given at the end of this message. > > We currently charge the following subscription fees for six issues (in Swiss > currency, "Schweizer Franken"): > > Inside Switzerland sFr. 45.00 > European countries sFr. 68.00 > All other countries sFr. 83.00 I got a copy of the second issue of the OS-9 International at Chicago a few weeks ago. I think it was a lot better for us "on this side of the pond" since it was mostly in English. (I also got a copy of the first issue last year, and it was mostly German.) I am very interested in subscribing this this magazine, but am a little dubious. I called my bank and got the current exchange rate for US dollars to Swiss Francs, and it is 1.4308 US dollars to 1 Swiss Franc. That makes your subscription for six issues a whopping $58 US!! That is VERY expensive for just six issues of what basically is a users group newsletter. I have a decent job and can afford to blow the money, but I'm afraid you aren't going to get very many subscriptions Stateside at those rates, I'm afraid. Zack C Sessions via InfoXpress/OSK by Bill Dickhaus There are 2 Replies. #: 18102 S1/General Interest 17-May-93 19:06:17 Sb: #18101-OS-9 International Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 To: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 (X) > I am very interested in subscribing this this magazine, but am a little > dubious. I called my bank and got the current exchange rate for US dollars to > Swiss Francs, and it is 1.4308 US dollars to 1 Swiss Franc. That makes your > subscription for six issues a whopping $58 US!! That is VERY expensive for just > six issues of what basically is a users group newsletter. Whoops! I misstated the exchange rate. It IS 1.4308, and as the lady explained it to me, to covert Swiss Francs to US Dollars, one divides the Swiss Francs by the 1.4308 to get US dollars. So the quote of $58 US is correct. Zack C Sessions via InfoXpress/OSK by Bill Dickhaus #: 18110 S1/General Interest 18-May-93 10:08:19 Sb: #18101-OS-9 International Fm: Carsten B Emde 100034,372 To: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 Hello, > ...subscription for six issues a whopping $58 US!! > That is VERY expensive for just six issues of what basically is a users group > newsletter. Sorry that this was not clear. OS-9 International is certainly *not* intended to be a users group newsletter. It is intended to be a journal devoted to the operating system OS-9; among other things it is the official organ of EFFO. The price for the journal is only symbolic. It does not at all cover the production costs nor was anyone ever paid for his work. If people cannot afford this price, then we simply got an answer to our question whether such a journal is feasible or not. carsten@ce.pr.net.ch #: 18103 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo) 17-May-93 20:00:33 Sb: #Multipak trouble Fm: Denise Tomlinson 71021,3274 To: all My son was using my Coco 3 with a multipak and didn't realize that the rubber feet of the coco came off. The multipak still had the feet. Aparently the multipak must have got a bad connection between it and the coco and the multipak got zapped. The Coco boots normally with the disk controller plugged into the rom port but refuses to boot with the multipak plugged in. All I get is a dark screen, no vdg screen or anything. I cleaned and checked the 34 pin connectors and especially checked the multipak edge connector for damage and found nothing Do you have an idea what chip might have gotten zapped? I can replace chips with a solder iron and Ic sockets, I have done them before. I used to do that kind of work at a shop once. Could the pal chip have gotten zapped? With the new pal chip, will the multipak work with a Coco 2? As a double check, I tried hooking the pak to a Coco 2 to make sure the trouble was in the pak. Seems like I remember that when the new style pal chip is put in a "pak" it won't work for a Coco 2 unless you have a switcher socket and the old chip. I really need the pak working because I use the Coco 3 with a Midi card to play a Synthisizer. Thanks, Denise Ps: If I get the pak working again, I'll replace the rubber feet on the Coco, and mount the whole unit on a piece of plywood so this won't happen again. There is 1 Reply. #: 18104 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo) 17-May-93 22:06:34 Sb: #18103-Multipak trouble Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 To: Denise Tomlinson 71021,3274 I have a "Multi-Pak Locking Plate" I got from Gimmesoft several years ago which I no longer use. Interested? Zack C Sessions via InfoXpress/OSK by Bill Dickhaus #: 18097 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 15-May-93 17:05:10 Sb: #18093-#new unzip Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X) Actaully, Mike, it was much easier with unzip. Didn't need to write a single line of code to fix the -a option. The code to do the translations was already in there...however, it was wrapped with a bunch of #if s. Just a matter of adding a #ifdef OSK to the list and now unzip figures it is creating mac files. These #if sure to complicate otherwise easy to follow code! Anyway, I've uploaded the new cut of unzip.lzh to lib 12. BTW, any success on that latest set of mroff macros I mailed you ? There are 2 Replies. #: 18106 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 18-May-93 00:30:12 Sb: #18097-new unzip Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 Well, It's been a terrible week here. But ended up very well. :) On last monday, I installed a brand new 600 meg HD on the MM/1. When I plugged my HD with all my source back in to copy the files to the new HD. I plugged the SCSI cable in backwards, turned the computer on and ZAP! Bye Bye source code. :( That drive had -ALL- my source code on it, UUCP, RN, CNEWS, ELM, CGFX, and all my commercial software source too! Luckily, Maxtor was kinda enough to send my a replacement HD, but couldn't (Wouldn't) fix my existing HD. So I waited 3 days for the new Maxtor.... When it came I was able to swap out the PC boards and get the data off my source drive. Then re-swapped the boards and sent the bad drive back to Maxtor. (Thank God they will send you a replacement drive and let you ship the bad one back AFTER you get the new one!) I got really, really lucky this time. (The knewest backup I had was 9 Months old) Time to run out and get a Tape or Floptical drive before anything else happens. Can you relate to having everything you ever wrote, including those special personal tools, destroyed in seconds! Not a pretty picture. BTW the 600 meg Seagate I got for $600 bucks in Los Angeles. (Good deal) - Mike - #: 18107 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 18-May-93 00:30:26 Sb: #18097-new unzip Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 Most of the macros at the beginning of those man pages has to be pulled. Mroff doesn't support the .if command stuff. And most of the font commands are strictly troff commands, we can't simulate all the macros. But most can be easily reworked. The macros you have worked after a little tweaking of the file. Now, If I had 9 megs of memory on this sucker I could compile groff and forget that M/Proff ever existed. But there's no mo' 9 meg boards, and Kev hasn't had a chance to run anymore. :( Too bad the gpp compiler can't use a disk file instead of needing 5 meg to run in. #: 18096 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 15-May-93 17:05:03 Sb: #18088-new unzip Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: keith bauer 71102,317 (X) A new version of unzip has been posted to lib 12. Fixes the -a problem. #: 18108 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 18-May-93 00:49:45 Sb: Printcap info needed Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 To: All Anyone know anything about printcap? I'm trying to have mroff be able to use special features of a printer. A printcap.man page sure would be helpful. I'll even be grateful for a printcap file. :) - Mike - Press !>