[Coco] unsilly Q about the os9 startup file

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings folks;

I think I asked this before but if I got an answer, I do not now recall 
what it was.

Situation:

I need to edit the startup file I am using, but any attempt to save the 
changes gets a "disk error".

Its as if the shell that launched it at startup, is still trying to execute 
it and still has a lock on the file.  In linux, an lsof could show me, but 
all I know at this time is that the file does end with a proper carriage 
return.

So if that is the case, I can only think of one way to do it, which would 
be to edit the backup on the other disk, and then edit the bootfile to 
change /dd back to /s1, and /dh back to /dd. And reboot.  But, that sure 
seems like doing an edit the hard way to me.

This is what proc thinks is running 4 hours after the latest reboot:
{t2|07}/DD/NITROS9/dw3install/6309L2/SCRIPTS:proc           

 ID Prnt User Pty  Age  Tsk  Status  Signal   Module    I/O Paths 
___ ____ ____ ___  ___  ___  _______ __  __  _________ __________________
  1   0    0  255  255   00  sTimOut  0  00  System    <Term >Term >>Term 
  2   1    0  128  128   00  sTimOut  0  00  Shell     <Term >Term >>Term 
  3   7    0  128  128   02  s        0  00  Proc      <t2   >t2   >>t2   
  5   0    0  128  128   00  s        0  00  Shell     <W4   >W4   >>W4   
  6   0    0  128  131   00  s        0  00  Shell     <W1   >W1   >>W1   
  7   0    0  128  131   00  s        0  00  Shell     <t2   >t2   >>t2   
  8   0    0  128  179   00  s        0  00  inetd     <DD   >Term >>Term

Any ideas on a non-switch it all fix?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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