[Coco] VEFIO and WInfo

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Guys,

Have you looked at thiis version of winfo in the NitrOS-9 Project?

http://nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nitros9/nitros9/3rdparty/utils/winfo/winfo.asm?revision=1.3&view=markup
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Boisy G. Pitre
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On Jan 10, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Robert Gault wrote:

> Willard Goosey wrote:
> 
>> 
>> There's a hard-coded string length of the driver's name, too.  Robert
>> Gault and I discussed this on this list a couple of years ago(!! time
>> flies!) I'm pretty sure he updated the source in the CVS but I don't
>> know if there's a binary there.
>> 
> 
> Unfortunately the source still is hard coded in this fashion. Here is part of the code.
> 
>         nam   WInfo
>         ttl   OS9 Level II sub to get window information - Ron Lammardo
> 
> *
> * 11/22/87 - Edition #1 - for OS9 Level II V02.00.01
> * 12/22/95 - Edition #2 - for ALL versions of OS-9 by Alan DeKok
> *
> 
> vtio     fcs   /VTIO/ used to compare device driver name
> vtiolen  equ   *-vtio
> 
> 
> * we got the requested device...now see if its vtio
> 
>         ldb   #5 5 bytes to compare
>         leax  vtio,pcr get addr of 'VTIO'
>         leay  devname,u get addr of the driver nam
>         os9   F$CmpNam see if they're the same
>         lbcs  error2 if not-skip to next entry
> 
> If this code is used in the original and it probably is, changing from cc3io to vtio in the fcs won't be enough because of the ldb #5.
> 
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