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From: rjus@uonline.com (ren_just)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: CoCo 3 Assistance
Date: 16 Aug 92 12:10:07 GMT
Organization: Just Computers!

I believe a fair number of Coco heads hang around in these parts and might
be able to assist me.  I need information regarding the following items:

1.  I have a multipak interface and for some reason I recall a modification
    that needs to be done for this to work effectively with my CoCo 3.  Is
    this the case and if so, what modification needs to be done?

2.  I am using a FD-501 floppy drive.  It has only one drive installed.  Can
    I use a normal "IBM" 360K type drive for the 2nd floppy drive?  Also,
    should the disk controller ROM work OK with my CoCo 3?

3.  My CoCo 3 only has the standard 128K of memory installed.  I have done a
    fair amount of hardware soldering and so forth.  Are there readily 
    available instructions to upgrade the memory to 512K without buying the
    kits that the various firms are selling? (I already have mundo memory
    chips around the house).

4.  Are they readily available instructions for building my own hard drive
    interface for the CoCo 3?  If so, where would I find them?

5.  If I want to run OS-9 and do C programming, what versions do I need to
    work effectively with my CoCo 3?

6.  What are the "hot" programs for this system that are must haves that are
    either public domain or shareware?

I just recently purchased this system and would appreciate any information for
a "newbie".  Thanks in advance.
From: hugo@bluehau.bubble.org (Hugo Bueno)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: CoCo 3 Assistance
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:35:48 GMT
Organization: The Blue House

rjus@uonline.com (ren_just) says:
>I believe a fair number of Coco heads hang around in these parts and might
>be able to assist me.  I need information regarding the following items:
>
>1.  I have a multipak interface and for some reason I recall a modification
>    that needs to be done for this to work effectively with my CoCo 3.  Is
>    this the case and if so, what modification needs to be done?

You don't HAVE to modify the mpak. However, if you do, you may find
that mysterious bugs may disappear.  For me, the system clock
finally ran at the right speed.

>2.  I am using a FD-501 floppy drive.  It has only one drive installed.  Can
>    I use a normal "IBM" 360K type drive for the 2nd floppy drive?  Also,
>    should the disk controller ROM work OK with my CoCo 3?

Yup, it should drop right in unless the cable uses one of those
silly pulled teeth methods. The ROM is the same old ROM.

>3.  My CoCo 3 only has the standard 128K of memory installed.  I have done a
>    fair amount of hardware soldering and so forth.  Are there readily 
>    available instructions to upgrade the memory to 512K without buying the
>    kits that the various firms are selling? (I already have mundo memory
>    chips around the house).

Easiest would be to get a 0 K board and plug in your chips.

>4.  Are they readily available instructions for building my own hard drive
>    interface for the CoCo 3?  If so, where would I find them?

Not really, but if you're a hacker, you can probably figure it out.
If not, just go for a B&B.

>5.  If I want to run OS-9 and do C programming, what versions do I need to
>    work effectively with my CoCo 3?

Os9 Level 2 and the Microware C compiler.  It's the one that works on
Level 1.

>6.  What are the "hot" programs for this system that are must haves that are
>    either public domain or shareware?

Well, what categories?

Telecom: Osterm, Supercomm, Sterm - all shareware
UUCP - 2 versions
Hardware: 6309 Booster
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: mm1@hounix.org (John Donaldson)
Subject: GNU C & C++
Organization: Houston UNIX Users Group (HOUNIX), Houston, TX
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:20:46 GMT

  I am having some trouble getting the OSK port of GNU C & C++ running.
I tried out a test program.
  
     #include <stdio.h>

     main()
     {
       printf("Hello World...");
     }

    I call it with .......gcc hello.c

  I get back a report with multiply errors in stdio.h . I looked at stdio.h
and cannot see what the problem is. It does state that some of the lines in
Stdio.h are C++ code. Is this a problem or not??
  Any help,hints,& ect would be very welcomed.


John D.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: OS9 disk squeezer
From: root@edy.elettra.trieste.it (System Administrator)
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:02:20 +0100
Distribution: world

  Does anyone know if exist a disk squeezer for OS9 system

	Thankx in advance

Keywords: 

Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: heilpern@microware.com (Mark Heilpern)
Subject: Re: Disabling ^C and ^E in RAVE from kbd...
Keywords: RAVE, GFM
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:08:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.203701.22803@a.cs.okstate.edu> donahoo@a.cs.okstate.edu (Donahoo Randall) writes:
>How does one disable the ^C and ^E interrupt and abort keys coming from the
>Graphic File Manager (GFM).  I have used _gs_opt() and _ss_opt() to reset
>the kbich and kbach to 0.  And, this seems to have not affect. 
>The options are changing for I also turned echo off so keys pressed on the
>/kbd device are not echoed to the /vid device and this worked.
>
>Randy Donahoo

Rather than change the characters, just install a signal handler which ignores
all incomming signals! Inside main(), include:

         intercept(nilhandler);

where 'nilhandler()' is an empty routine declared as

         nilhandler(){}

somewhere before main().
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From: kt@keihh.hanse.de (Kei Thomsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Strange Bug in l68
Date: 22 Aug 92 06:26:58 GMT


There is a strange BUG in the l68. I have a program (lha-1.00) witch
produces the following code (with GCC):

	psect	slide_gc,0,0,0,0,0
	vsect
	align

.... Stuff deleted

	rts :2

	vsect
	align
hash2	ds.b	2
	align
hash1	ds.b	2
	align
max_hash_val	ds.b	2
	align
dicsiz	ds.b	2
	align
prev_char:	ds.b	4
	align
text:	ds.b	4
	align
loc:	ds.b	2
	align
count:	ds.b	4
	align
maxmatch:	ds.b	2
	align
dicbit:	ds.b	2
	align
compsize:	ds.b	4
	align
origsize:	ds.b	4
	align
unpackable:	ds.b	4
	ends
	ends

With ds.s 4 it works.

debug:     with 'sd'

c_code              D 0002A6FC   prev_char           D 0002A830   
text                D 0002A838   loc                 D 0002A840   
count               D 0002A844   maxmatch            D 0002A84C   
dicbit              D 0002A850   compsize            D 0002A854   
origsize            D 0002A85C   unpackable          D 0002A864   

--------------------------------------------

	psect	slide_gc,0,0,0,0,0
	vsect
	align

.... Stuff deleted

	rts :2

	vsect
	align
hash2	ds.b	2
	align
hash1	ds.b	2
	align
max_hash_val	ds.b	2
	align
dicsiz	ds.b	2
	align
prev_char:	com.b	4
	align
text:	com.b	4
	align
loc:	com.b	2
	align
count:	com.b	4
	align
maxmatch:	com.b	2
	align
dicbit:	com.b	2
	align
compsize:	com.b	4
	align
origsize:	com.b	4
	align
unpackable:	com.b	4
	ends
	ends

With com.b 4 it does not work! WHY? But only in this file, and in no other file.

debug:     with 'sd'

c_len               D 0002A300   pt_table            D 0002A304   
c_code              D 0002A6FC   maxmatch            D 0002A7A8   
loc                 D 0002A7A8   dicbit              D 0002A7A8   
unpackable          D 0002A7AC   text                D 0002A7AC   
prev_char           D 0002A7AC   origsize            D 0002A7AC   
count               D 0002A7AC   compsize            D 0002A7AC   
_srqsiz             D 0002A9D4   _fcbs               D 0002A9DC   


Why does the l68 set more then ONE variable to the same address ???

(Hi Microware...)

Header for:      l68
Module size:     $5D36       #23862   
Owner:           1.0
Module CRC:      $A3F33B     Good CRC
Header parity:   $2C68       Good parity
Edition:         $40         #64      
Ty/La At/Rev     $101        $C001    
Permission:      $555        -----e-r-e-r-e-r
Exec off:        $4C         #76      
Data size:       $FE0        #4064    
Stack size:      $1C00       #7168    
Init. data off:  $5B98       #23448   
Data ref. off:   $5CDA       #23770   
Prog Mod, 68000 obj, Sharable, Sticky Module

                   /\
                  |^^|
                  |{}|
   _______________/~~\________________
  / Kei Thomsen   |  | keihh.hanse.de \
 `========--------.  .---------========'
                  ||||
 Wildermuthring 90 || kt@keihh.hanse.de
 2000 Hamburg 62   ||    OS-9 68030 
 Voice 040/5205921 ||
 Modem 040/5200428 ||  300-14400 Baud
               ,---||---, (V32bis)
               '---<>---'
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: teo@mab1.iitb.fhg.de (Theophil)
Subject: nfs-problem
Organization: Institut fuer Informations- und Datenverarbeitung
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:37:32 GMT

We have Problems with NFS (Microware -1.1)
"Automount" does not work. We want to include the
filesystem of os9-machine in Sun-filesystem with "automount"
Perhaps there is one who can help ?!

Mail to :   teo@iitb.fhg.de
From: mark@ginger.biophys.upenn.edu (Mark Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Sockets in OS-9
Keywords: socket block blocking
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:13:30 GMT


	Does anyone know how to make socket I/O "blocking" in OS-9?
	I have looked at setsockopt() and _ss_opt(). The former doesn't
	have a "block/noblock" option, and the latter does (_sgsk_noblock)
	but it doesn't work!!

	I would really appreciate any help.

	Mark Elliott
	mark@ginger.biophys.upenn.edu
From: rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Third-Party GMX hardware?
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:10:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.QeWyXma00WAxE4CXYM
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Anybody know of any third-party hardware vendors selling add-on boards for
the GMX (Gimix) Micro-20 68020 single-board computer? Specifically, I'm
wondering if anyone manufactures a graphics board for the beast, but I'd
be interested to see if there are any manufacturers who make hardware for
this machine besides GMX themselves.


Thanks,
Russell Hoffman                 |  Co-Sysop, The Penetrator BBS York, PA
rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu            |  90 MB OS9/OSK Online 24 Hrs/day
Carnegie Mellon University      |  3/12/2400 baud (717) 741-5078
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w - indicates file can be hosed
x - indicates file contains bugs
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: bcwhite@norton.uwaterloo.ca (Brian White)
Subject: (none)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 08:31:27 GMT

>   I get back a report with multiply errors in stdio.h . I looked at stdio.h
> and cannot see what the problem is. It does state that some of the lines in
> Stdio.h are C++ code. Is this a problem or not??
>   Any help,hints,& ect would be very welcomed.

The header files that come with GCC and GPP are for g++ only.  When using
gcc, use the standard Microware header files.

                                        Brian

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From: tcm@moscom.UUCP (Tom Maszerowski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: OS-9 programming question
Summary: Show us your code
Keywords: status set file
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:12:15 GMT
Reply-To: tcm@moscom.UUCP (Tom Maszerowski)
Followup-To: comp.os.os9
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY

In article <86426@netnews.upenn.edu> mark@ginger.biophys.upenn.edu (Mark Elliott) writes:
>
>	I am having trouble calling the file status setting routines I$SetStt
>in OS-9. In particular, I'm trying to use the C routine _ss_ssig() to have a
>signal sent to me when data is ready on a pipe. At run time, I get the error:
>
>	Error #000:208 Unknown Service Code
>	A OS-9 call specified an unknown or invalid service code, or a
>	getstat/setstat call was made with an unknown status code.
>


  _ss_ssig() does indeed work on pipes, in fact it only works on pipes
and SCF devices (from the manual). It is important that you have the
path open prior to calling this routine and remember that the sigcode
argument is a short, using an int (which defaults to 32 bits) may
effectively result in a sigcode of 0, which is probably illegal.


-- 
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                   {rit,tropix,ur-valhalla}!moscom!tcm
                   DoD#1957 (1987 BMW K75s)
From: pensyl@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Background BASIC progs HELP!
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:33:04 EST

Help!
   How can I get two or more BASIC programs to run background while
still interacting with the shell that I am logged in to?

   More specifically,
   Program A which will run 'forever' and program B which will run
   'forever';  I wish to run these BASIC programs in background and
   still do 'shell things' like:  ftp and telnet, et al.

   Is there an equivalent to   'xxx &' where xxx is a real executable?
JIM P.  216-646-5225
Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: bfw@matrix.com (Byron F. Warner)
Subject: Lpd service from os/9
Summary: network printer services
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:29:32 GMT
Organization: Matrix Corporation
Keywords:  lpd, lpr, lprm, lpc, lpq


Does anyone know a lpd printer daemon for OS-9?  I would
like to set a os9 box up as print server for a network of
Unix machines.
 
Thanks in Advance

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Systems Administrator		   | 
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1203 New Hope Rd Ext.              | Raleigh, NC 27610                  
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From: jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: TEAC FC-1 OS9 Driver
Keywords: TEAC SCSI FLOPPY
Date: 13 Aug 92 01:14:30 GMT


I have had a driver working with the TEAC model FD-235HS-301 'scsi'
3.5in floppy drive. The SCSI interface card designated 'FC-1' had a
rom number '3857-01' and I supported up to rev H.

TEAC in it's infinite wisdom has discontinued the '301' model and
has upgraded the FC-1 rom to 3857-11. They sent me a 'small' booklet
on the changes. Of course if the small and insignificant details that
I found to be different where corrected and all was well, I wouldn't be
posting.

So, the request is for info on others if they've used this device,
and what changes they've had to come up with.
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu
From: keith@khmarch.bowlgreen.OH.US (Keith H. March)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: cd-rom drive and my MM/1
Keywords: cd-rom scsi mm1
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 92 20:20:46 EDT
Distribution: usa
Summary: looking for software
Organization: Busy Beaver WoodShop

Hi:

I have a CHINON SCSI CD-ROM, Model # CDS-431, drive installed in
my 3 Meg. MM/1 computer. But I don't have any software to run it.

I have a 60 Meg. SCSI Hard drive on my MM/1. Could I use that
file manager and driver?

Does anyone know were I can get the software or would someone
like to write the driver and discriptor for it.

I would like to be able to play AUDIO CD'S on it.

Also is their any way to use the IBM/MAC CD-ROM DISKS with the MM/1?

Keith
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
Subject: Re: os9/68030 with SCSI drive/How to check drive errors?
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:23:02 GMT

In article <kdarling.714571218@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:

>>Ok. I've got a Seagate 296N which recently started screaming. Naturally
>>this is not the way it is supposed to be! How can I start monitoring
>>drive errors and the such.? The system is a 68030 OS9 system with the one
>>scsi drive on it. Suggestions ???
>
>How long has it been making the sound?  I have a drive which will make
>horrible sounds whenever the air gets humid, but then goes back to normal
>after a while.  It's been doing that for years now.
>

If it's a very high-pitched, piercing, annoying-as-hell noise, it's
probably the ground strap rubbing against the drive spindle.
Normally, I think there's supposed to be a little piece of carbon on
the strap where it touches the spindle (sort of like in a distributor
cap where it contacts the rotor), but this can wear off over time.

I don't think this should effect the operation or reliability of the
drive (but then, I'm no drive repair tech :) ).  Removing the ground
strap might stop the noise, but then I think it was put there in the
first place to drain off static electricity and possibly magnetically
induced eddy currents as well.  Also, I think I read somewhere that
you could fix it by using a drop of conductive lubricant.

Paul
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: carl@syscon.rn.com (Carl Kreider)
Subject: Help with address
Organization: Syscon Corporate Headquarters - South Bend, IN USA
Distribution: us
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:23:20 GMT

I apologize for the bandwidth, but I am trying to reply to a message 
from <tomk%wa4mei@mathcs.emory.edu> and uunet bounces them.  Can anyone
give me the right route or could the author try again?

Carl Kreider       Usenet    uunet!rde!gator!syscon!carl
CIS  71076,76      Internet  carl@syscon.rn.com
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Subject: Re: os9/68030 with SCSI drive/How to check drive errors?
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 12:00:18 GMT

drx@chinet.chi.il.us (Scott Whittle) writes:
>Ok. I've got a Seagate 296N which recently started screaming. Naturally
>this is not the way it is supposed to be! How can I start monitoring
>drive errors and the such.? The system is a 68030 OS9 system with the one
>scsi drive on it. Suggestions ???

How long has it been making the sound?  I have a drive which will make
horrible sounds whenever the air gets humid, but then goes back to normal
after a while.  It's been doing that for years now.

kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: cyclone@netcom.com (Jazz-man)
Subject: OS-9 Programmer needed
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 23:28:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Please see misc.jobs.offered for information on a position immediately
available in Colorado for an experienced OS-9 programmer.

Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:35:10 -0400 
From: "Russell E. Hoffman, II" <rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: GMX sc68681 question

Hello.
   I have a GMX Micro-20 68020 single board computer, and I've been playing
around with the 'timer' mode on the 68681's on the board. What I'm trying
to do is to generate a 31,250 bps baud clock on a 68681 under the 'timer' mode
so that I can directly drive an RS-232 to MIDI convertor. According to the
68681 docs, I should be able to load the ACR with a $60 to set the clock
mode for internal clock divided by one, and set the CACR to $DD to selct
timer mode input. Then, I should load the timer registers with 0 and #59
respectively to generate the appropriate baud clock:

3,686,400 Hz / 31250 = 117.96   ~~= 118
Then 118/2 = 59.   So That should work. But it doesnt.
What I'm trying to do is simply iniz the /t2 port, and then set the registers
on the 68681 as above, and then simply be able to print to the port using
normal i/o routines to be able to send MIDI data. But the baud rate generated
by the above method is quite a bit slower than 31250 bps. I can tell by copying
a large file to the port and timing it.
   At first, I thought maybe somehow I was getting the divide-by-16 clock,
but I found that setting the ACR to $70 accomplishes that, making the port
speed even 16 times slower yet.

ANy ideas?

Thanks,

Russell Hoffman                 |  System Administrator
rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu            |  Family Practice Center of East Berlin
Carnegie Mellon University      |  68020 OS9 Box managing 10,000 patients
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: drx@chinet.chi.il.us (Scott Whittle)
Subject: os9/68030 with SCSI drive/How to check drive errors?
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 05:13:31 GMT

Ok. I've got a Seagate 296N which recently started screaming. Naturally
this is not the way it is supposed to be! How can I start monitoring
drive errors and the such.? The system is a 68030 OS9 system with the one
scsi drive on it. Suggestions ???

thanks
s.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: leeg@microware.com (Lee Glenn)
Subject: Re: Sockets in OS-9
Keywords: socket block blocking
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:08:05 GMT

In article <86442@netnews.upenn.edu> mark@ginger.biophys.upenn.edu (Mark Elliott) writes:
>
>	Does anyone know how to make socket I/O "blocking" in OS-9?
>	I have looked at setsockopt() and _ss_opt(). The former doesn't
>	have a "block/noblock" option, and the latter does (_sgsk_noblock)
>	but it doesn't work!!
>
>	I would really appreciate any help.
>
>	Mark Elliott
>	mark@ginger.biophys.upenn.edu
>


The correct way to set blocking on a socket is to use the _ss_opt() function.
What edition # of sockman do you have?

-Lee

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