[Coco] NitrOS-9 EOU Beta 6 - what is VERM?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

/verm is a CoVDG version of /term, and is mainly meant to make older level 1 programs that were hard coded for /term easier to patch (exact same size module name). 

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> On Jan 1, 2021, at 12:50 PM, William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have completed my pillaging of software and utilities from the EOU and
> adding  them to my main NitrOS-9 "instance".  Now I'm getting into the
> nitty gritty of how things work and are put together.  Today I'm working on
> getting DriveWire working that way I want it to and adding some modules to
> OS9Boot and removing others I do not care to use.  In this process I ran
> across a module that is added to every one of the pre-built OS9Boot files
> that I am not familiar with, VERM.  I searched through every single one of
> the SCF modules and then all modules in /DD/MODULES/6809L2/MODULES/
> structure.  I could not find a matching module with the same name or CRC
> value.
> 
> Header for:  Verm
> Module size: $0044    #68
> Module CRC:  $20D19B (Good)
> Hdr parity:  $B6
> Edition:     $53      #83
> Ty/La At/Rv: $F1 $80
> Dev Dsc mod, 6809 obj, re-en, R/O
> 
> Address   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F  0 2 4 6 8 A C E
> -------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------
> 00000000 87CD 0044 0036 F180 B600 3A00 3D03 07FF  .M.D.6q.6.:.=...
> 00000010 C024 0000 0000 0101 0000 1008 180D 1B09  @$..............
> 00000020 1917 0305 0807 0100 0036 0000 2010 0001  .........6.. ...
> 00000030 0100 0002 0302 5665 72ED 5343 C656 5449  ......VermSCFVTI
> 00000040 CF20 D19B                                O Q.
> 
> Helpful OS-9 tips:
> 
> In case some might think that looking at the ident information of so many
> files is a chore, you can use the call command (which does not seem to be
> present on the EOU) to ease this task considerably.
> 
> dir -s ! call ident -sv $ ! shell t -p
> 
> Searching all of the OS9Boot files for the presence of VERM is also just as
> easy.
> 
> dir -s ! fgrep -i "os9boot" ! call ident -sv $ ! shell -p ! fgrep -i "verm"
> 
> Dir ed8 maintainers, it would be helpful if the -s switch also worked with
> wildcards.
> 
> WIlliam Carlin
> 
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