[Coco] nitros9 questions

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 12 May 2008, John Donaldson wrote:

>Gene Heskett wrote:

>>On Sunday 11 May 2008, Willard Goosey wrote:

>>>On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:29:39PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

>>>>vi startup

>>>> error 234 - non-existent module

>>>

>>>Ummm... Do you have the VRN drivers and descriptors in your os9boot?

>>>That is exactly the error you get if you try to run the VI device

>>>descriptor as a program module....

>>

>>Yes, that is what I found to be the case.  Like you, the VRN stuff has been

>>part of my bootfile since forever it seems.

>>

>>>You'd think it would be more like wrong type module, but...

>>

>>Well, IMNSHO, a device descriptor should not be an executable, and until

>> this last couple of releases, has never before been attempted.  A device

>> descriptor is a lookup table, nothing more.  It might be fixable with vfy,

>> but I haven't tested the idea.  The Att/Rev byte in the header really

>> should call them all 'data'.

>>

>>>I know this, since I habitually include VRN in all my bootdisks.  IMHO

>>>no OS is complete without a null device. ;-)

>>

>>I share that opinion.

>>

>>>Otherwise it must be a 6309 thing, 'cause tsedit runs fine on 6809

>>>nitros.

>>

>>I may try it by linking or renaming vi to vim, although there's no way it

>>could be confused with the real vim.  Still, its the best small editor we

>>have.  The only one where you can "vi #56k bigfile', everything else that I

>>have either forces you to less than 40k (edit), or even ignores it and

>> makes you page through the file 16k at a time(ds).  I used to use xed &

>> xprint back in the day, but they were about as buggy as the standalone

>> edit, & when level 2 came out, they didn't run on the coco3.  To be fair

>> to ved & vprint, I don't have them, so I can't judge them.

>>

>>It had been so long since I used edit that I had to read up about it in the

>>level 2 manual. :(

>>

>>>Willard

>

>What about SLED....I used to use it all the time. A great editor. I

>think there was a Color SLED to that when using it to write source code

>would set different part different colors like REM statements set to all

>Green, line numbers to a different color, and code text to another color.


I did try it once way back in coco2 days, it crashed about 90% of the time for 
me.  I also know that many used it successfully too, but I guess it didn't 
like me or something.  Where can a more recent copy be found?

Thanks John.

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