[Coco] VI and VIRQ

[Mark Marlette]

Gene,

I'll let Boisy explain in more detail but yes you can talk/copy to a  
HDB-DOS drive under NitrOS-9 and SuperDriver.

There are several things that need to be setup in the descriptor /sh.

Mark
Cloud-9

Quoting Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:


> On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

>> Gene,

>>

>> From your comments, I think you are misunderstanding OS-9's method

>> for executing programs.

>>

>> Fact: if you type the name of a non-executable module (i.e. device

>> descriptor) at the shell prompt in an attempt to execute it, you will

>> get an error #234.

>>

>> This is the way it has always worked in OS-9 and NitrOS-9.  Nothing in

>> the last few releases of NitrOS-9 has changed in this regard.

>>

>> I checked the King's Quest III bootfile.  Here's the ident output:

>>

>>    17 $C0 $47B370 . OS9p2

>>    67 $C0 $0B2322 . Init

>>    12 $C1 $FD1FEA . IOMan

>>    28 $D1 $EFBE13 . RBF

>>     9 $E1 $759161 . CC3Disk

>>    82 $F1 $FC1918 . D0

>>    82 $F1 $9F4210 . D1

>>    82 $F1 $E6B118 . DD

>>    13 $D1 $F946CA . SCF

>>    19 $E1 $0C8A2E . CC3IO

>>     1 $C1 $11ED90 . VDGInt

>>    83 $F1 $AB5AE5 . TERM

>>    10 $C1 $A18121 . Clock

>>     5 $11 $1006FE . CC3Go

>>    83 $F1 $577429 . VI

>>    22 $E1 $A128BF . AGIVIRQDr

>>

>> There exists a module named VI in that bootfile, which would

>> immediately clash with the VI program you are trying to run.  Again,

>> NitrOS-9 does nothing special or different in this regard.  The issue

>> is a name clash between a program and a module in memory.  The module

>> in memory wins out.

>>

> I don't recall it that way, but it isn't worth a prolonged discussion either.

> I'll fix vi yet today.  End of problem.

>

> Any idea about the rest of it, like the non booting ss35 disk?  Or is it

> possible to do a basic "backup 0 to 127" from a 40 track DS disk? (my setup

> is a 1GB scsi disk, with HDB-DOS new enough to handle virtual floppies, but I

> don't recall what size the virtual's are, os9 side formatted for 4 sector

> clusters)

>

> Which brings up the question, is it possible to access these virtual disks

> from nitros9 with a carefully crafted SO, S1 etc descriptors for rbsuper?

>

>> Regards,

>> Boisy G. Pitre

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>>

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> <knghtbrd> it's too bad most ancient unices are y2k compliant

> <|Rain|> too bad?

> <|Rain|> why, because people won't upgrade until 2038?

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