[Coco] curses! Sucess!

[John W. Linville]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 08:11:30PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 16 August 2009, John W. Linville wrote:
> >On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:15:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Sunday 16 August 2009, James Dessart wrote:
> >> >On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Gene Heskett<gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >> >> We have one, and its the only editor I use on the coco.  Its made from
> >> >> the tsedit disks by a patch that I think (I could be wrong) was done by
> >> >> Eddie Kuhns.  Beware that with modern nitros9, it will have to be
> >> >> renamed because of the usage of 'vi' as a device descriptor name, an
> >> >> unfortunate choice IMNSHO. Gives some crazy error messages. :(
> >> >
> >> >Maybe it could be named 'vic,' "vi for coco," or "vic-200" since the
> >> >CoCo is obviously much better than a vic-20.
> >>
> >> Unforch, there is only a 2 char limit for the name.  I may even have
> >> called it ed since I don't have one of those original beasts installed.
> >
> >Use the source, Gene!  Change the name in CVS!
> >
> >John
> 
> I have the cvs checkout here, but where in the tree is it?  locate vi |grep 
> nitros9 isn't getting any hits on that.
> 
> Thanks John.

nitros9/level2/modules/vi.asm

The top of the file says "VI - VRN (VIRQ/RAM/Nil driver) device descriptor"

Is there a "vn" descriptor?  Maybe that is a good alternative?
Or "vq"?  Or...?

John
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