[Coco] another nightly build problem

[Bob Devries]

Gene,

if I save rel, the file is saved without the 6-byte header. Even without 
them, verify hangs.

I will try your vfy, though, for future forays into the whirlpool.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] another nightly build problem


> On Tuesday 09 October 2012 23:57:51 Bob Devries did opine:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> while trying to fix my problem with rel, I came across another issue:
>>
>> It would seem that the verify command does not work!
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the command should be:
>>
>> verify -u rel
>>
>> If I do that, it seems to go to lala land :(
>>
>> Sigh.
>> That "nightly" build of 16 August, 2012 sure seems to be broken in a few
>> places.
>>
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
> Humm, didja try my vfy?  Something must have contaminated your verify, or
> your rel.  Better yet, I just tried my copy of verify on one of the 5 
> rel's
> in the dw3 .dsk install, it didn't crash my coco, but it hung it will I 
> hit
> a key, then returned with an illegal module header error.  That I expect 
> is
> because it probably needs a legit $87CD as the first two bytes, and rel
> doesn't have them and never will because it has a 6 byte rsdos leader.
>
> A dump looks like this:
>
> Address   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F  0 2 4 6 8 A C E
> -------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------
> 00000000 4F53 202D 1205 87CD 012A 000D C185 D700  OS -...M.*..A.W.
>
> Note the rsdos binary header, so the $87CD starts at offset 6.
>
> vfy will show you this:
>
> {t2|07}/DD/NITROS9/dw3install/6309L2/MODULES/BOOTTRACK:vfy rel_80_50hz
>
> Length of file: $00000130
> Module found at offset $00000006 in this file
> Header for    : REL
> Header parity : $D7 (good)
> Module size   : $012A
> Edition       : $05
> Ty/La At/Rv   : $C1   $85
> System module, 6809 object, Re-enterable, R/O
> Exec. off     : $002B
> Data Size     : $0000
> Module CRC is : $3F6405 (good)
>
> Bytes read    : $00000130
>
> vfy is a multi-bladed swiss army knife.  Check it out.  It should be on my
> web page. The CoCo-os9-stf link I think.
>
> Cheers, Gene
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