[Coco] My first CoCo device (virtual)

Stephen Fischer SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
Thu May 30 00:55:01 EDT 2019



On 5/29/2019 9:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 May 2019 11:43:16 pm Stephen Fischer wrote:
> 
>> On 5/29/2019 8:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 29 May 2019 09:04:03 pm Stephen Fischer wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> If that one can't be found, there is another that I wrote after
>>> being challenged by Paul Jerkatis.
>>
>> I think the task at hand is to break up a "C" library, modify one (or
>> more) routines and put the library back together.
>>
>> I remember that was different from breaking up a os9boot file, if not
>> then EZGEN is a simpler route.
>>
>> I just checked my printed listings of my last OS-9 L-I and L-II disks
>> and nothing in CMDS looked like the correct program.
>>
>> As it was a one time only use the library breakup program may not have
>> made it to a boot able disk.
>>
>> I do not have printed listings of the disks containing DELPHI files,
>> they were collected together for quicker searching and are now lost.
>>
>> If someone remembers the name of the "C" library breakup program the
>> Delphi download disks can be searched.
>>
>> SHF
>>
> I think I've seen it, even used it but the name escapes me too.
> 
> Given the srcs for vfy, it would be dead simple to rename it, and make it
> look not for the $87CD of an os9 file, but for a $62CD which is the
> identifier of a C library module. Very trivial change. Maybe even make
> it automatic by using a -cs to tell it to split a C library?  And the
> srcs are on my web page or maybe even "out there".

a file needs to be written with the names of the individual entries in 
the order found. "C" libraries must be in a specific order, re the order 
they are searched for needed routines will cause other parts of the 
library also to be loaded. It is a one pass operation.

That's the file given to OS9GEN which puts the library  back together.

SHF

> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 


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