[Coco] vim for coco3 os9 is now in Genes-os9-stf

[tonym]

I think he was referring to "vi," as that is what was asked - probably a mistake dropping the "m" from "vim."

Tony


---- Original Message ----
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
Sent: 11/7/2014 6:08:16 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] vim for coco3 os9 is now in Genes-os9-stf

On Friday 07 November 2014 16:30:46 John W. Linville did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Not even on a CoCo3 with the NoCan3...

Further thinking on this Tim, since I interpret the above statement to 
mean it will not run on your box;

If you have my "vfy" on your coco (get it the same place below), the crc 
of the downloaded file, installed on your coco3, should be:

{t2|08}/X0/NITROS9/6309L3:vfy -x vim 
Length of file: $00001B01

Module found at offset $00000000 in this file
Header for    : vim
Header parity : $32 (good)
Module size   : $1B01
Edition       : $58
Ty/La At/Rv   : $11   $81
Program module, 6809 object, Re-enterable, R/O
Exec. off     : $0017
Data Size     : $BFF3
Module CRC is : $270842 (good)

Bytes read    : $00001B01

The ident util can also show you the crc, but if the memory has been 
adjusted, that will change.  vfy can adjust the memory and fix the crc in 
one swell foop.  I'd verify it had a good crc before I adjusted it.

But never ever forget that windows likes to filter what it downloads, 
"translating" the line ends in the file even if YOU know its binary and 
should not be so massaged.  My theory is that it is one of the ways 
windows discourages what they think is piracy, by making sure the 
downloads you do with it, don't work on the original platforms they came 
from, and are going to.  Suspect exactly that if the file after 
downloading is not EXACTLY that $1B01 (6913 bytes in decimal) long, and of 
course the crc will be burnt toast.

Frankly, I'll go get a 6 pack and celebrate when windows exhales its last 
breath.  If I'm still inhaling regularly that is. ;-)

OTOH, I just checked the headers of your message, and that does resemble a 
linux install.  So maybe I am barking at the moon?  Dunno.  Plz advise.

Thanks Tim.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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