[Coco] nitros9 questions

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 10 May 2008, Christopher Hawks wrote:
>Gene Heskett said the following on 05/10/2008 11:29 AM:
>> Greetings nitros9 fans; (the <devel at nitros9.org> mailing list is
>> apparently a black hole now, 2 posts in 2 days have not come back)
>>
>> I have finally managed to build a new boot disk from the latest release
>> that "almost" works.

[...] 

>> But if someone can tell me why vi won't run when booted to the latest
>> nitros9, I'd be suitably grateful.  That would be the most important item
>> to fix first, because its the tool to fix just about everything else.
>
>	Some of the modules names were changed a while back. Here is the CVS log
> entry: Revision 1.1 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]
>Sat Nov 26 21:31:22 2005 UTC (2 years, 5 months ago) by boisy
>Branch: MAIN
>
>Major changes:
>CCIO,CC3IO are now VTIO
>GrfInt is now CoGrf
>WindInt is now CoWin
>VDGInt (L2), CO32 (L1) is now CoVDG
>CO51 (L1) is now CoHR
>CO80 (L1) is now CoWP
>All files referencing these have been changed
>
>	Does vi reference any of them by name?? The descriptors were all changed.

I don't honestly know Chris.  And without the utility known as strace for the 
linux boxes, I have no way of tracing what vi needs short of dissing the 
whole thing.

I also note that I don't recall seeing a CoWP on the 3.2.6 disk.  I have one 
of those cards and did use it quite heavily 15 years ago with a 13" amber 
screen monitor sitting beside the 8cm515.

Without vi, that means I'm back to edit, and one of its bugs bit me again 
today.  I wish someone would put that standalone version out of my misery, 
the edit in basic09 does NOT suffer these same bugs.

I understand you have a CDF filesystem now, what are you asking for that?  I 
already have a scsi cd-r drive.

Thanks Chris.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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