[Coco] Small OS-9 drivers taking up 16K after loaded

[Bob Devries]

Hi Roger,

After copying the new os9boot file to /dd, you'd need to use the following 
command:

os9gen -q=os9boot

ensure first that you have changed directory to /dd

Hope that helps.

Regards, Bob Devries

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:43 PM
Subject: [Coco] Small OS-9 drivers taking up 16K after loaded


>
> I have a question concerning drivers that use the RBF system.  If the 
> modules are loaded from the prompt, even if merged into one module and 
> occupying only $2AA bytes of code, why would there be a drop from 24k free 
> memory to 8k?  16k has been eaten instead of 8k.  The driver doesn't use 
> anywhere near enough memory to exceed 1K, let alone 8K.  Does any code or 
> memory from RBF also get allocated?
>
> 24k free
>
> merge drivepak.dr drivepak_h0.dd drivepak_h1.dd >dp
> (dp is $2AA bytes)
> attr dp e pe
> load dp
>
> now 8k free
> attempting to even use "dir" now produces the error #207 memory error
>
> as expected, unlinking dp gives me my memory back
>
> I'm going to try using ded to merge these into os9boot and test them that 
> way.
>
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