[Coco] [Color Computer] OS-9 Editor and NitrOS-9 Download

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 00:28, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 12/9/03 7:40:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>
>dbree at duo-county.com writes:
>> However, they inadvertently assigned a
>>  signed number for a pointer, and the ASCII value of an ALT-key is
>> sign extended and thus points backwards from the base of the
>> array, and thus jumps to an undefined location, resulting in
>> either a crash or some undefined/unknown action.
>
>Hah hah, that good old 6809 C lack of "unsigned char" bites us once
> again, with a SEX-ually transmitted disease :-)  Not that it's an
> excuse for the 68K version, but whoever coded it may have still
> been thinking 6809.  Maybe Scred was written first for the 6809?
>
>Q: Where can I get Scred?
>A: That's the first time I've heard that question in the pluperfect
>subjunctive :-)
>
>Seriously, way back when, as a learning project for FrameMaker on
> the Sun workstation at work, I made a nice "cheat sheet" for Scred,
> showing a big keyboard with each key listing its function (Alt-ed,
> shifted, or controlled).  I may still have one left that I could
> scan and send out to anyone interested, but by now everyone knows
> how well I find things :-)
>--Mike K.

Heh.  But that does sound like a usefull additive, so post away 
AFAIAC.

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