[Coco] [coco] OS-9 CRC check

[George Ramsower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "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?
>

 I didn't know that CRC could be turned off. Anyway, it's not Nitros9, it's 
OS-9 L2

George