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

[Ray Watts]

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:
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>>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.
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>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?
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>Q: Where can I get Scred?
>A: That's the first time I've heard that question in the pluperfect 
>subjunctive :-)
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>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.
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You must have really got snowed in up there around Bath, when you can 
dream up that much different sexual humor concerning the CoCo!!!  Also, 
seriously, if you do find that SCRED cheatsheet, why don't you post it here?

Griz

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