[Coco] problems creating a boot disk from NitrOS9 03.02.09

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 22 January 2010, Robert Gault wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Have you found it (scred) 100% dependable?
>
>For the most part, yes. Things can go wrong if you use the wrong key
>combinations and recovery sometimes must be brute force. I tend to just
>reboot, kill the temporary file, and start over.
>
>> Yes, I still have a copy of it, find found these, copy/pasted from the
>> minicom screen:
>>
>> {t2|08}/DD/MAXTOR:find scred /dd/maxtor
>> scredfix.ar found in /DD/MAXTOR/AR.STF
>
>I've not heard of scredfix. What is it and where is it available?
>
>> icon.scred found in /DD/MAXTOR/B09/ICONEDT.SRC/ICONS.TXT
>> icon.scred found in /DD/MAXTOR/CMDS/ICONS
>> scred found in /DD/MAXTOR/CMDS
>> SCRED found in /DD/MAXTOR/HELP
>> scred.hlp found in /DD/MAXTOR/HELP
>>
>> Then:
>> {t2|08}/DD/MAXTOR:vfy cmds/scred
>> Length of file: $0000591D
>>
>> Module found at offset $00000000 in this file
>> Header for    : scred
>> Header parity : $6C (good)
>> Module size   : $591D
>> Edition       : $3D
>> Ty/La At/Rv   : $11   $81
>> Program module, 6809 object, Re-enterable, R/O
>> Exec. off     : $001C
>> Data Size     : $0E77
>> Module CRC is : $6E4288 (good)
>>
>> Is that the same scred you have?
>
>Yes, looks like the same one as the CRC and edition are the same.
>
>> From a dir -e listing:
>> 0  2003/12/11 16:50  --e-rewr     D74      591D scred
>>
>> And this is scred.hlp:
>> {t2|08}/DD/MAXTOR/HELP:list scred.hlp
>> Syntax: Scred [-opts][<filename>]
>> Usage : Screen Editor
>> Opts  : -e  = embedded attributes on terminal
>>          -b=<int>  redefine buffer size
>>          -l=<int>  redefine screen length
>>          -w=<int>  redefine screen width
>>          -t=<term>  define terminal name
>>          -z=<path>  path for termset file
>>
>> And an attempt to run it:
>> {t2|08}/DD/MAXTOR/HELP:../cmds/scred scred.hlp
>> Error #216 - Path Name Not Found
>>
>> And it returns that error 100% of the time, like its hard coded to go
>> look for a termset file on a floppy that doesn't exist?
>
>Not sure what you are trying to do there. Scred.hlp should be in the SYS
>directory. You can list it or while in the scred Edit mode type ? as a
>command. You don't get any help from scred while in the Command mode.
>I've got a set of scred instructions but no way to scan them. So if you
>want to know how to do something I can respond with the key sequence but
>can't send a copy of the instructions.

I've gotten rather fond of ed(aka vi) now, and since scred won't run 
here.....

Thanks for the offer though, Robert..

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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