[Coco] nitros9 questions

[Christopher Hawks]

Gene Heskett said the following on 05/10/2008 08:11 PM:

> On Saturday 10 May 2008, Christopher Hawks wrote:

>> Gene Heskett said the following on 05/10/2008 11:29 AM:

>>> Greetings nitros9 fans; (the <devel at nitros9.org> mailing list is

>>> apparently a black hole now, 2 posts in 2 days have not come back)

>>>

>>> I have finally managed to build a new boot disk from the latest release

>>> that "almost" works.

> 

> [...] 

> 

>>> But if someone can tell me why vi won't run when booted to the latest

>>> nitros9, I'd be suitably grateful.  That would be the most important item

>>> to fix first, because its the tool to fix just about everything else.

>> 	Some of the modules names were changed a while back. Here is the CVS log

>> entry: Revision 1.1 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs]

>> Sat Nov 26 21:31:22 2005 UTC (2 years, 5 months ago) by boisy

>> Branch: MAIN

>>

>> Major changes:

>> CCIO,CC3IO are now VTIO

>> GrfInt is now CoGrf

>> WindInt is now CoWin

>> VDGInt (L2), CO32 (L1) is now CoVDG

>> CO51 (L1) is now CoHR

>> CO80 (L1) is now CoWP

>> All files referencing these have been changed

>>

>> 	Does vi reference any of them by name?? The descriptors were all changed.

> 

> I don't honestly know Chris.  And without the utility known as strace for the 

> linux boxes, I have no way of tracing what vi needs short of dissing the 

> whole thing.

> 

> I also note that I don't recall seeing a CoWP on the 3.2.6 disk.  I have one 

> of those cards and did use it quite heavily 15 years ago with a 13" amber 

> screen monitor sitting beside the 8cm515.


	I don't think CO80 changed names. It's still in the current NitrOS9.


> Without vi, that means I'm back to edit, and one of its bugs bit me again 

> today.  I wish someone would put that standalone version out of my misery, 

> the edit in basic09 does NOT suffer these same bugs.

> 

> I understand you have a CDF filesystem now, what are you asking for that?  I 

> already have a scsi cd-r drive.


	Yes, I sell CDF (CD rom filemanager) for both 6x09 and 68000 (Nitr)OS-9. The 
6x09 version (specify which) is $25 and the 68000 version is $50.

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