[Coco] MAKE_TK.lzh has a bad case of Y2K.

[gene heskett]

On Monday, May 30, 2011 06:04:11 PM Stephen H. Fischer did opine:

> Hi,
> 
> Gene, there are two copies of Sled on RTSI!
> 
> They both started from the same user group disk source.
> 
> I spent my time insuring that the file being edited would not be lost,
> it took a long time to find the final bug in the original source.
> 
> The other author added help files, pop up windows and other stuff.
> 
> The last time I tried the other sled it took me one minute to prove that
> several bugs were never addressed! Mainly crashes.
> 
> Mine is called "ColorfulSLED ED6" and is here on RTSI"
> 
> ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/APPS/Colorful_Sled_6ed.LZH
> 

Got it, thanks.

> The commands for the two Sleds are quite different and I stayed away
> from the other so that I would not learn it's commands.
> 
> I needed to find the SLED card doc page to find out how to exit SLED
> after twenty years.
> 
> Next post will say that the LII.Dev.Pak "Make" STILL WORKS just fine.

Great!
> 
> SHF
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "gene heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 12:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] MAKE_TK.lzh has a bad case of Y2K.
> 
> >> It is funny that of the programs that I am using the most only
> >> shellplus was not written by myself. (Colorful SLED, Archive and
> >> Vdir).
> > 
> > I have never been able to make the copy of sled that I have, do very
> > much but crash the whole  coco3, I think because it blows the stack
> > away at the drop of a Ken & Barbie sized hat.  No idea if my copy
> > matches yours though,
> > so lemme fire up minicom & go sic vfy after it to get the size, ed &
> > crc. Humm, and it is not in /dd/cmds, nor in /dd/maxtor/cmds, so
> > 'find sled /dd'
> > is looking for it.  That will take a while on a 1Gb drive, so I'll
> > come back later.
> > 
> > I think one does tend to use his own stuff more than OP, a confidence
> > thing
> > maybe.
> > 
> >> I am going to try the dev pack kit's make as I currently have it
> >> installed. If it fails also then no "Make" will make.
> >> 
> >> SHF
> 
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