mdk1@cblpf.ATT.COM (Michael King) (06/28/88)
WOW! I just got a chance to start playing with the new OS9 L2 development kit. There is a lot of great stuff in there. The documentation is broken into 5 parts: Interactive Debugger, Screen Editor, Relocating Macro Assembler, Utilities, and Commands. The Debugger is pretty much that same as the one distributed with the level 1 disks. I haven't had time to play with the Screen Editor yet, nor have I had a chance to use the RMA (Relocating Macro Assembler). The Utilities section includes the Virtual Disk Driver/Ram Disk, Make (similar to the UNIX make command), and Touch ( a command that will update the time/date stamp on a file). The Commands section includes the missing documentation for modpatch and montype, as well as, BINEX/EXBIN, DUMP, LOGIN, PARK, SAVE, SLEEP, TEE, TSMON, and VERIFY. The disk is a flippy disk which means that there is one disk with cut-outs for both sides. The back side of the disk contains the DEFS, LIBS, MODULES, and SOURCE files. I hadn't had time to cruise through the DEFS, LIBS, and SOURCE files, but the MODULES contains the device drivers for the ram disks, several versions of hard disk, and the nil driver (bit-bucket). One really neat bit of info that was included in the docs on the modpatch command is a patch to set the /term from a 40 column window to an 80 column window. Shown below is the patch: l term c 002c 28 50 c 0030 01 02 v I ran the patch and cobbler to make the change permanent, then rebooted. The text (black on green) is a little hard for me to read, so I changed my startup file to: * lock in std utils and shell link shell montype r display 0c >/term display 1b 34 02 > /term display 1b 33 02 > /term display 1b 32 04 > /term * echo welcome message..... this clears the /term screen and changes it to a red foreground and black background and border. I also copied my most used commands into the ram disk. I used the 96K disk which gave me 384 sectors. I also loaded in Dynastar and created an third window and I still had 240K of system memory left! I'd say that this collection of software is well worth the $99 price. Mike King -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UUCP:..!ihnp4!cblpf!mdk1 | OS9 USERS DO IT IN WINDOWS Domain: mdk1@cblpf.ATT.COM | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~