[Coco] Nitros9 & Mess

[Nathan Woods]

Boisy Pitre wrote:

> Nathan,
>
> I just tried the latest development build of NitrOS-9 with MacMESS .70 
> and did the following commands at the shell prompt:
>
> touch x
> touch y
> dir
>
> The directory showed the files normally.
>
> Using a fresh copy of the disk image on MESS .78 under Windows, I get 
> a '..' entry in place of the x when I do a directory.
>
> The discrepancy in behavior may be related to the different versions 
> of MESS running, or it could be a compiler issue?  At any rate, it's 
> strange that it affects one platform, and not the other.

I believe that this issue existed in MESS 0.70, or at least the Windows 
version.  I do agree that it seems strange that it doesn't appear to 
occur on MacMESS.  It very well could be a compiler issue, or it could 
be at some level an endian issue or even an uninitialized RAM issue.