[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

Stephen H. Fischer SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
Thu Oct 18 02:10:25 EDT 2012


Hi,

The date suggests that it might be worth a try just using the one in the 
file on RTSI, only one year difference.

Yours is  ~ 649 bytes smaller (Decimal).

The author is not responding to e-mail, but his website is still up.

Perhaps the disassembly got messed up.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] cowin vs cogrf question


> On Thursday 18 October 2012 00:47:10 Stephen H. Fischer did opine:
>
>> "Gene Heskett" <gheskett-ouEgS7marmk at public.gmane.org> wrote in message
>> news:201210172107.33151.gheskett at wdtv.com...
>>
>> > On Wednesday 17 October 2012 20:56:19 Stephen H. Fischer did opine:
>> >> Hi,
>> >
>> > I for one would like to see shellplus come back. Broken scripts, if
>> > thats the case, are editable. Shrug.
>> >
>> >> Lots of changes I would like to do to restore ShellPlus to it's glory
>> >> that will break lots of scripts and user habits. Part of the reason I
>> >> see a need to break from the past.
>> >>
>> >> BTY, I wrote a Basic09 Preprocessor to handle #Include files that
>> >> also might help.
>> >
>> > Thanks SHF."
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just read "shellplus2.2a.docs" from
>> ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/APPS/ShellPlus_2_2a.lzh
>>
>> It scared me!
>>
>> It says that "For those of you running NitrOS9, the new version 1.20
>> upgrade will include
>> this shell, and has an even more extensively optomized SCF (see NitrOS9
>> docs for details)".
>>
>> There is so much tied together that I do not believe that I can fix it
>> in my remaining life time, if it is broken really bad like it might be.
>>
>> It is not a simple case of my collecting from my last good system the
>> ShellPlus 2.1 parts that were working well together and giving them to
>> you.
>>
>> I saw the same problem the day before you saw it and I do not understand
>> how someone could have tried to fix something and caused what we are
>> seeing.
>>
>> Is there any archive of the source / parts for NitrOS-9 1.20 to compare
>> the current ShellPlus with?
>>
>> SHF
> No clue.  But my archive of the old 7120s maxtor might have something.
> (poking at it) Yeah, the file I have as shell_21 is a very small file, not
> even $600 bytes.  The shell I am using is slightly over $1800 bytes.  No
> wonder, at that size differential there has to be a huge diff in the
> functionality too.  From vfy after I split it out, I had a bunch of utils
> appended to it also.  That merged file carries a date in 1995, but I've no
> clue how much older it may be.
> {t2|08}/DD/MAXTOR/shell-stf:vfy shell
>
> Length of file: $000018B3
> Module found at offset $00000000 in this file
> Header for    : Shell
> Header parity : $80 (good)
> Module size   : $18B3
> Edition       : $15
> Ty/La At/Rv   : $11   $82
> Program module, 6809 object, Re-enterable, R/O
> Exec. off     : $006E
> Data Size     : $1F00
> Module CRC is : $40AAAC (good)
> Bytes read    : $000018B3
>
> It is attached for your snooping pleasure.  Maybe this one will be easier
> on the surrounding ears?
>
> Cheers, Gene
> -- 
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