[Coco] nitros9 questions

[John Donaldson]

Gene Heskett wrote:

>On Sunday 11 May 2008, Willard Goosey wrote:
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>>On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:29:39PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
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>>>vi startup
>>> error 234 - non-existent module
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>>Ummm... Do you have the VRN drivers and descriptors in your os9boot?
>>That is exactly the error you get if you try to run the VI device
>>descriptor as a program module....
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>Yes, that is what I found to be the case.  Like you, the VRN stuff has been 
>part of my bootfile since forever it seems.
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>>You'd think it would be more like wrong type module, but...
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>Well, IMNSHO, a device descriptor should not be an executable, and until this 
>last couple of releases, has never before been attempted.  A device 
>descriptor is a lookup table, nothing more.  It might be fixable with vfy, 
>but I haven't tested the idea.  The Att/Rev byte in the header really should 
>call them all 'data'.
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>>I know this, since I habitually include VRN in all my bootdisks.  IMHO
>>no OS is complete without a null device. ;-)
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>I share that opinion.
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>>Otherwise it must be a 6309 thing, 'cause tsedit runs fine on 6809
>>nitros.
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>I may try it by linking or renaming vi to vim, although there's no way it 
>could be confused with the real vim.  Still, its the best small editor we 
>have.  The only one where you can "vi #56k bigfile', everything else that I 
>have either forces you to less than 40k (edit), or even ignores it and makes 
>you page through the file 16k at a time(ds).  I used to use xed & xprint back 
>in the day, but they were about as buggy as the standalone edit, & when level 
>2 came out, they didn't run on the coco3.  To be fair to ved & vprint, I 
>don't have them, so I can't judge them.
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>It had been so long since I used edit that I had to read up about it in the 
>level 2 manual. :(
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>>Willard
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What about SLED....I used to use it all the time. A great editor. I 
think there was a Color SLED to that when using it to write source code 
would set different part different colors like REM statements set to all 
Green, line numbers to a different color, and code text to another color.


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