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From: color@ihlpg.UUCP (Rhodes)
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Subject: Re: OS9 Introductory Info wanted
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 13:36:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 13:36:15 1986
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This is posted as an addendum to the info presented by Mike
Knudsen:
	TSWORD is one of the new version 02.00.00 CoCo OS9
packages finally released by the Shack. It uses nroff-compatible 
commands embedded in text with a nifty window into the rough document
to do screen formatting on the fly. A VSHELL is supplied that
is capable of accepting at least one shell parameter. I
haven't used this application yet as I'm hung up getting it
to work from /D1 (that's the second disk drive). 
	Last month the Shacks here had a half-price CoCo
software sale. D.L. Logo has a vi-like editor and does sound
with a version 01.01.00 boot plus sound cartridge. A brain-
damaged screen dump package exists: the 256x192 graphics screen is
bit-mapped to dot-matrix printers but circles become oblong
in the process. A third party harware-software package called
CoCoMax (imitates the MacIntosh-screen menus stuff) does
screen dumps to dot-matrix printers the right way.
	I've been very pleased with the performance of the
CoCo under OS-9 control and look forward to some kind of
ram-disk to speed up command execution. I have integrated
a terminal at 9600 baud and an auto-answer modem lets me login
remotely. XCOM9 is a shareware product available from the
OS9 Users Group that does XMODEM protocol file transfers.
	I even have a real-time clock so I don't have to set
the clock at boot time. Don't forget to do this or else some
version 01 programs won't work.
	My cat once fried my motherboard by knocking over the
disk-drives. Total repair cost from the Shack was $65. The
one thing I will say bad about the Shack is that their documentation
is plagued with typos. When I read something I always use a
rule of 50-50: it's either true or it's false.

                  Jeff.Rhodes
ps. I know I need to make a disclaimer so here it is: use the
rule of 50-50 for all of the above.