[Coco] [coco] OS-9 CRC check

[George Ramsower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L. Curtis Boyle"


> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:48:36 -0600, George Ramsower 

> <georgeramsower at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>>  I don't know, but I thought the CRC check in OS-9 L2  would ensure that 

>> a module was okay to use. I feel that this may not be the case as this 

>> morning, I had a problem saving a file from Basic09. It just wouldn't 

>> stop trying to save it.  I let it try for several minutes. It would move 

>> the floppy drive's head back and forth and finally, I reset the CC3 and 

>> rebooted. Once done, using Basic09, I reloaded a backup of the stuff and 

>> saved it as I did the first time and it worked.

>>

>>> From Basic09...

>>

>>  Save* filename

>>

>>  did not work

>>

>>  Reboot, restart B09

>>

>>  load filename.bu     << that's the backup

>>  save* filename

>>

>> Worked. How is that?

>>

>> George

>>

>

> To speed up module loading, etc. quite a few of us disabled the CRC 

> check... it could be that your version of the Nitros9 kernal has it 

> disabled by default. Boisy?

>


 I didn't know that CRC could be turned off. Anyway, it's not Nitros9, it's 
OS-9 L2

George