[Coco] Minted buffer size

[Stephen H. Fischer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Minted buffer size


> 
> 
> On Saturday 07 March 2015 19:46:02 Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
>> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 3:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Minted buffer size
>>
> I have 2 or 3 copies of that printed and buried in the "midden heap" 
> around my coco3.  Finding one of them can be a chore.  Unfortunately, I 
> have had it muck up a file 2 or 3 times with zero indication anything 
> was wrong, so I am a bit wary of it for serious work.
> 
>> This is a link to "SLED Card ED6.zip" in PDF format.
>> http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/download/file.php?id=160
>>
>> I don't type "Sled" without it handly.
> 
> Neither do I. ;-)
> 
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>>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

I used it at lot when I was using a real CoCo and though I had made it bullet proof, but as many times you said you fired a gun one Saturday, perhaps not.
 
More details would be interesting but then perhaps not as it has been so many years since I looked at the code. 

The version I started with was from one of the OS-9 user disks and was a real horror and I lost editing sessions many times until it was somewhat stable. 

We users tend to use programs in ways the author never did so I might have missed something.

I gave it to a local CoCo Software collector (Thief) who gave it to a few friends but I never got any feedback or help with the documentation that was promised.

All I can say is what a Doctor said when the patent said it hurt when he raised his arm over his head. "Don't do that."

Series File Output (ALT CTRL O)  is what I would use to save the current editing session to a file ever so often, there is no room for a timed version like my word processor does.
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Bill Pierce once said he was using  an editor with no line limit but thinking about that I do wonder if he was actually using a OSK version.

Your comment about "editors that can handle 100 megabyte files." Is how I handle the problem.

I have the "C" source code from Dr. Dobbs for "RED" which could handle files bigger than memory.

We lost a lot of talent when OSK came out and the people who could have fixed many of the things troubling us just left just like I did when Borland Turbo 'C" showed that there was a better way.

SHF