[Coco] No easy rename on OS-9 ?

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

I checked how deldir forks another deldir recursively and I can easily
F$Fork and F$Wait for a rename thread. No big deal. I think this will
make the wordstar fully operational, except by the printer, oh boy I
don't have one to test :(


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
<retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm very disappointed to discover that there ain't no I$Rename on
> OS-9. This is the reason the file becomes empty on cp/m wordstar save.
> As it tries to rename the scratch file and doesn't find it, it makes a
> new one. I was ignoring the BDOS rename call.
>
> The rename.asm from os-9 repo is pretty large. I can make a smaller
> copy/delete but this is not the optimal solution and could run out of
> space.
>
> As far I understood the rename.asm, it opens a directory raw file and
> change the name on it ? Is that correct ? Is it safe with multi
> threading doing this way ? What could be the other solution ? Using
> fork to create a rename process ?
>
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