[Coco] os9boot file editor?

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

That's the one.
Can you supply Roger with program and documentation?

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Fadden" <t.fadden at cox.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] os9boot file editor?


> On 4/6/2010 10:21 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:
>> Is there an os9boot file editor available anywhere?  I could swear 
>> back in the day I used use such an editor to hack around with my 
>> repack system which had the early versions of NitrOS-9 on a 42 megger.
>>
>> I'd like to be able to edit an os9boot file in place, delete modules 
>> from it and add others and save without fragmentation if my added 
>> modules don't cause os9boot to grow larger than it's original size.
> 
> The one I have is called "ezgen" by Burke & Burke.  Might have been 
> others, but this is the only one I know of.
> From the manual:
> 
> EZGen is used to modify a file containing one or more OS9 modules. EZGen 
> commands will add, delete, replace, patch, verify, or store the modules 
> contained in the specified file.
> 
> Two special file names are recognized by EZGen. If the name of the file 
> is OS9Boot, EZGen will automatically update the boot information in the 
> ID sector of the device where the file is stored. Files named AltBoot 
> cause an automatic update of the XT-ROM alternative boot information, 
> which is stored in the last five bytes of the ID sector.
> 
> End quote.
> 
> Tim
> 
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