[Coco] Weird errors

[Christopher Hawks]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:29, Boisy Pitre wrote:

>> After looking at the xmode.asm source and examining the compatibility

>> issue that has plagued users of tmode, I am considering a different

>> approach than the one I expressed in the email below.  Specifically,

>> I am considering resurrecting the old tmode/xmode utilities and

>> renaming the current "new syntax" tmode/xmode to some variant, such

>> as tmode2/xmode2 and including those as part of an enhanced utilities

>> package that would also include things like bawk and other commands.

>> This utility package would be downloadable as a separate disk image

>> alongside NitrOS-9.

> 

> Given the trouble this has caused, including for me, I vote for the above 

> scenario. Those that need it can still get it, but via this method, all 

> the legacy stuff runs again by default.  In re xmode, iirc there is an 

> original, and a more all-encompassing version that covered the windows 

> related stuff and expanded on the rs-232 controls.  Syntacticly compatible 

> with the original for those options the original covered, I'd vote for the 

> second edition of xmode to be the one restored.  I don't know if there was 

> an expanded tmode or not, never having encounterd it or a need for it that 

> I know about now.


	Me too!

	Gene, are you thinking of exmode?? I have it on my AT306 (OS9-68000, 
running from Compactflash), and ISTR there was one for Level 2 as well.

	Maybe exmode and etmode as the new versions.

-- 
Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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