[Coco] ANNOUNCE

[gene heskett]

Greetings;

Pursuant to a recent discussion of sorts re os9 archiving tools, and in 
case some of the newer ones here haven't picked it up for their coco usage 
yet. I have moved both lha_2_11c.lzh and lzh10.ar to
<http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/stuff4george>
and created a subdir LHA.STF there which contains the contents of 
lha_2_11c.lzh which includes the .doc files, renamed as .txt files so .doc 
detectors in browsers shouldn't miss-handle them.  However, they are not 
line end converted so will display funny on non-coco systems, so those who 
download and save them should become familiar with 'tr' or whatever its 
called on your machines.

What version of OSTerm are folks using?, I found at least 2.08 and 2.10 
here.  I have copied the 2010.lzh version to the above link now as its 
internal file dates are about 6 years newer than the 2.08.ar.

I have also copied the newest version of Supercom I have to there, as 
sc23ed6.lzh.  This was my favorite of the os9 comm programs, handling the 
rz/sz stuff well.

For those who would like to schedule stuff, I have copied Cron_vE.lzh there 
too.

And I just found a dir with the version of disasm that I used extensively 
15 years ago, so that whole dir is in the process of being made into a 
'disasm1.7.lzh' archive & should be ready for dl in another 15 minutes or 
so. Because it also contains the assembly listings, it is about 125k after 
lha smunches it.

And I just found the directory I had all the Prof. Bud Pass 'SLEUTH' stuff 
in, and he didn't mind my bringing it uptodate (he wrote it in os9 level 1 
version .0001 days :-) ) and I brought it up to level 2 capabilities but I 
don't believe I ever added the 6309 op-codes to it.  Anyway lha is busy 
munching away on that, and it will still be a huge archive for a coco disk.

Sleuth is capable of generating extremely high quality source code, but 
does require a lot of time consuming 'baby sitting' to achieve because it 
doesn't change modes from fcc/fcb to executable code and vice versa at all 
well, so you have to watch it, and generate a file that tells it which modes 
are at which offsets into the binary you are dissing, then re-run it again 
for each addition you make to this reference file.  A source binary full of 
fcs's, fcc's & fcb's at odd locations can be a bear.  It is 337k, and sz is 
copying it and it S/B ready now.

The drive I am pulling this stuff from is extensive, nearly 90 megs of 
coco/os9 stuff so you can ask about a lot of things I probably have.  Don't 
be bashful.  If I fall over and this isn't made available now, some of it 
will be lost forever.  Not that all of my stuff is "precious", but for some, 
there's no reason to re-invent that particular wheel again.  I hope it will 
be useful to someone.

Enjoy.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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