#: 20480 S1/General Interest 19-Oct-94 21:55:23 Sb: #20479-#Any suggestions? Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) Surely there is a LEN function in BASIC09?!?!? ------------------------------------ Zack C Sessions If you're not the "lead dog", the scenery never changes. There is 1 Reply. #: 20481 S1/General Interest 20-Oct-94 07:06:47 Sb: #20480-#Any suggestions? Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 To: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 (X) Zack, Yes, but it doesn't return the defined length of the variable, just the current length. And it only works on strings, but then depending on how this is being used, it should be fairly obvious what the size of non string variables is. -Bill- There is 1 Reply. #: 20484 S1/General Interest 20-Oct-94 21:17:52 Sb: #20481-#Any suggestions? Fm: Dick Watson 71320,2340 To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X) Finding the DIM'd length was exactly my concern. Few things create a flake problem faster than OCCASIONALLY overruning a string variables assigned length... There is 1 Reply. #: 20486 S1/General Interest 22-Oct-94 12:34:49 Sb: #20484-Any suggestions? Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051 To: Dick Watson 71320,2340 > Finding the DIM'd length was exactly my concern. Few things create a > flake problem faster than OCCASIONALLY overruning a string variables > assigned length... Perhaps you could use the SIZE(str) function. This returns the DIM'ed size of the string you are querying. -- David Breeding -- CompuServe : 72330,2051 Delphi : DBREEDING *** Sent via CoCo-InfoXpress V1.01 *** ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ #: 20482 S1/General Interest 20-Oct-94 07:06:55 Sb: #20479-Any suggestions? Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) Bob, You are correct, but the only examples I've ever seen are in the C manual! Some good examples, though, of how to use C subroutines with Basci09. And since the Basci09 calling convention is a little odd, interfacing with C requires some #asm directives to set things up correctly, providing some clues on how to interface with asm directly. -Bill- #: 20483 S1/General Interest 20-Oct-94 21:15:37 Sb: #20479-Any suggestions? Fm: Dick Watson 71320,2340 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 Thanks. I'll file this away; my search for manuals has been interrupted by less important/more urgent fire drills... D. Watson #: 20488 S1/General Interest 22-Oct-94 14:32:00 Sb: 1.2 Meg Teac -- Need hel Fm: Boisy G. Pitre 74464,3005 To: all Hi all, I just purchased a TEAC FD-55GFR 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drive for my MM/1. I cannot seem to read CoCo OS-9 formatted disks with the following dmode parameters: name=c1 drv=1 stp=3 typ=$24 dns=$01 cyl=40 sid=2 vfy=1 (off) sct=18 t0s=18 sas=8 ilv=3 tfm=0 toffs=0 soffs=1 ssize=256 cntl=$0000 trys=0 lun=0 wpc=0 rwr=0 park=0 lsnoffs=0 totcyls=80 ctrlrid=0 rates=$10 scsiopt=$0000 maxcount=65535 When I attempt to read, I get an error #247. The light comes on and the drive is apparently trying to read the disk. I recall hearing discussion that some 5.25" drives use a different spin rate to read hi-density while others use a different data rate. While I'm not trying to read a hi-density disk in this case, I wonder if this drive will work as a 1.2 meg floppy? Does anyone have any experience with this drive on the MM/1? I would appreciate any answers. If I can't use the drive, I'm taking it back. -- Boisy G. Pitre__ __ __ Delphi: BOISY |_ _| \ \/ / CompuServe: 74464,3005 I use... _| |_ > < Internet: boisy@os9er.waukee.ia.us |_____|NFO/_/\_\PRESS 1.2.0 OS-9 -- King of Operating Systems #: 20489 S3/Languages 23-Oct-94 10:19:21 Sb: #20472-GNU C compiler Fm: Bruno Nilsson 76407,600 To: DTR 100302,3271 Thank you very much. I will send them a FAX. Regards Bruno #: 20487 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo) 22-Oct-94 12:35:39 Sb: #20476-Config & os9gen Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 > If you use a vdg TERM to boot to, you need to include VDGInit (If memory > serves...). Right. VDGInt can run hi-res screens, but no "versie-visa" > BTW, if you have managed to use config to create a new boot disk, you are > the first person I know to do so. Most people just create a bootlist file > and use os9gen....much easier and faster. And how. I file 13'ed config pretty quickly.. I guess something like could have been developed for those who would have been strictly in the "User" class, but this one lacked a lot. I simply set up various bootfil various configurations and kept them on file.. I'd think this was what almost everyone did. -- David Breeding -- CompuServe : 72330,2051 Delphi : DBREEDING *** Sent via CoCo-InfoXpress V1.01 *** ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ #: 20485 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 22-Oct-94 01:06:40 Sb: #20477-RLE-VSC Fm: Eric Crichlow 71051,3516 To: Alan Weston 76234,3500 (X) Alan, > Basically, I'm trying to enable the built in RLE decoding. Unfortunately I can't answer your question, but I'm also currently trying to gain access to the VSC's unsupported features, namely the PIXAC. I've also been thinking of some things to use the RLE decoding for. If you have any success at this let me know. ..Eric... Press !>