[Coco] /NIL device

[L. Curtis Boyle]

And Kwikzap was a nice match. I really like DED, but the direct screen writes in Kwikzap made it quite fast. (DED became much faster after Alan initiated "block writes" between SCF and Grfdrv...)

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Yes your right Curtis, I still to this day use kwikgen to make any of my boot files.  It is the fastest and best program for boot files we found at the time.
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> Bill Nobel
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>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:49 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
>> 
>> As a side note... Bill Nobel and I used this *extensively* in making the original OS-9. It was a utility sold by Wes Gale (and Gale Force Enterprises... the first distributor of NitrOS-9).
>> Much faster then EZGEN and any of the others we tried.
>> 
>> L. Curtis Boyle
>> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:36 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Kandur,
>>> 
>>> I use a programme called Kwikgen to add modules to my OS9Boot file. It is very easy to use, and I used it just a couple of days ago to add nil.dd and vrn.dr to my OS9Boot file.
>>> 
>>> If you have it, just start Kwikgen
>>> Then 'L' to load the boot file, it will ask which drive.
>>> Then 'I' to insert.
>>> It will ask where to insert it (after which module in the list).
>>> then it will ask for the module directory where the modules can be found.
>>> Do that for both nil.dd and vrn.dr
>>> Then 'W' to write the os9boot file.
>>> Answer 'N' to the question about track 34.
>>> Then 'Q' to quit.
>>> 
>>> Regards, Bob Devries
>>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>> 
>>> On 15/08/2014 12:45 PM, Kandur wrote:
>>>> What is the easiest way to add the /NIL device, to a running NitrOs-9 L2 session?
>>>> I found nil.dd in the modules/scf directory, but it is not listed with mdir,
>>>> can't redirect to >/nil either. I know, I could make a new bootdisk, but....
>>>> 
>>>> Kandur
>>>> 
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