[Coco] nitros9 questions

[Christopher Hawks]

Gene Heskett said the following on 05/10/2008 08:11 PM:
> 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.

	I don't think CO80 changed names. It's still in the current NitrOS9.

> 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.

	Yes, I sell CDF (CD rom filemanager) for both 6x09 and 68000 (Nitr)OS-9. The 
6x09 version (specify which) is $25 and the 68000 version is $50.

-- 
Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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