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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Help with OS-9 - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 10:49:00 EDT
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uokvax!emjej    Sep 10 09:49:00 1984

I fear I don't know enough to help you with chain()--BTW, the semantics
of chain() are such that if you return at all, something is wrong.

Re SCF: it looks like background processes only get a shot at your
terminal while the process that got it first (typically the shell)
isn't queued up for I/O, which, given the way humans work, is most
of the time. Background stuff that I've forked seems to spritz out
a bit at a time, a few lines each time I enter another command. Sigh.

Re CoCo disks, drivers, etc: near as I understand, there's an oscillator
that has to change frequency on the controller cartridge to let the
WD179x switch from using 5" to using 8" drives. Also, I don't know
which of the several alternative device drivers FHL is selling, but
Dale Puckett (I think somewhere in the neighborhood of April/May 1984)
has mentioned in one of his *Rainbow* columns that one such device
driver both is reasonable w.r.t. sides, tracks, etc., and is shorter
than the stock device driver for CoCo.

Re Kermit for OS-9: info-kermit contains mail from a fellow named Bob
Larson (blarson@usc-eclb.arpa) who has mentioned such a project.

						James Jones