[Coco] [coco] OS-9 CRC check

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:48:36 -0600, George Ramsower  
<georgeramsower at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I don't know, but I thought the CRC check in OS-9 L2  would ensure that  
> a module was okay to use. I feel that this may not be the case as this  
> morning, I had a problem saving a file from Basic09. It just wouldn't  
> stop trying to save it.  I let it try for several minutes. It would move  
> the floppy drive's head back and forth and finally, I reset the CC3 and  
> rebooted. Once done, using Basic09, I reloaded a backup of the stuff and  
> saved it as I did the first time and it worked.
>
>> From Basic09...
>
>  Save* filename
>
>  did not work
>
>  Reboot, restart B09
>
>  load filename.bu     << that's the backup
>  save* filename
>
> Worked. How is that?
>
> George
>

To speed up module loading, etc. quite a few of us disabled the CRC  
check... it could be that your version of the Nitros9 kernal has it  
disabled by default. Boisy?


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L. Curtis Boyle