[Coco] VI and VIRQ

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>Gene,
>
> From your comments, I think you are misunderstanding OS-9's method
>for executing programs.
>
>Fact: if you type the name of a non-executable module (i.e. device
>descriptor) at the shell prompt in an attempt to execute it, you will
>get an error #234.
>
>This is the way it has always worked in OS-9 and NitrOS-9.  Nothing in
>the last few releases of NitrOS-9 has changed in this regard.
>
>I checked the King's Quest III bootfile.  Here's the ident output:
>
>    17 $C0 $47B370 . OS9p2
>    67 $C0 $0B2322 . Init
>    12 $C1 $FD1FEA . IOMan
>    28 $D1 $EFBE13 . RBF
>     9 $E1 $759161 . CC3Disk
>    82 $F1 $FC1918 . D0
>    82 $F1 $9F4210 . D1
>    82 $F1 $E6B118 . DD
>    13 $D1 $F946CA . SCF
>    19 $E1 $0C8A2E . CC3IO
>     1 $C1 $11ED90 . VDGInt
>    83 $F1 $AB5AE5 . TERM
>    10 $C1 $A18121 . Clock
>     5 $11 $1006FE . CC3Go
>    83 $F1 $577429 . VI
>    22 $E1 $A128BF . AGIVIRQDr
>
>There exists a module named VI in that bootfile, which would
>immediately clash with the VI program you are trying to run.  Again,
>NitrOS-9 does nothing special or different in this regard.  The issue
>is a name clash between a program and a module in memory.  The module
>in memory wins out.
>
I don't recall it that way, but it isn't worth a prolonged discussion either.  
I'll fix vi yet today.  End of problem.

Any idea about the rest of it, like the non booting ss35 disk?  Or is it 
possible to do a basic "backup 0 to 127" from a 40 track DS disk? (my setup 
is a 1GB scsi disk, with HDB-DOS new enough to handle virtual floppies, but I 
don't recall what size the virtual's are, os9 side formatted for 4 sector 
clusters)

Which brings up the question, is it possible to access these virtual disks 
from nitros9 with a carefully crafted SO, S1 etc descriptors for rbsuper?

>Regards,
>Boisy G. Pitre
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<knghtbrd> it's too bad most ancient unices are y2k compliant
<|Rain|> too bad?
<|Rain|> why, because people won't upgrade until 2038?