[Coco] another nightly build problem

[Bob Devries]

Hi Gene,

looking at the source code of verify, I suddenly realised that *nowhere* 
does any file get F$Open'd. With that clue in mind, I tried this command 
line:

verify <rel

and hey presto, it works!

Of course, if the file to be verified is redirected to STDIN, there's no way 
that any update of the CRC can be done.

Surely a serious error in the source?

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] another nightly build problem


> On Tuesday 09 October 2012 23:57:51 Bob Devries did opine:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> while trying to fix my problem with rel, I came across another issue:
>>
>> It would seem that the verify command does not work!
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the command should be:
>>
>> verify -u rel
>>
>> If I do that, it seems to go to lala land :(
>>
>> Sigh.
>> That "nightly" build of 16 August, 2012 sure seems to be broken in a few
>> places.
>>
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
> Humm, didja try my vfy?  Something must have contaminated your verify, or
> your rel.  Better yet, I just tried my copy of verify on one of the 5 
> rel's
> in the dw3 .dsk install, it didn't crash my coco, but it hung it will I 
> hit
> a key, then returned with an illegal module header error.  That I expect 
> is
> because it probably needs a legit $87CD as the first two bytes, and rel
> doesn't have them and never will because it has a 6 byte rsdos leader.
>
> A dump looks like this:
>
> Address   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F  0 2 4 6 8 A C E
> -------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------
> 00000000 4F53 202D 1205 87CD 012A 000D C185 D700  OS -...M.*..A.W.
>
> Note the rsdos binary header, so the $87CD starts at offset 6.
>
> vfy will show you this:
>
> {t2|07}/DD/NITROS9/dw3install/6309L2/MODULES/BOOTTRACK:vfy rel_80_50hz
>
> Length of file: $00000130
> Module found at offset $00000006 in this file
> Header for    : REL
> Header parity : $D7 (good)
> Module size   : $012A
> Edition       : $05
> Ty/La At/Rv   : $C1   $85
> System module, 6809 object, Re-enterable, R/O
> Exec. off     : $002B
> Data Size     : $0000
> Module CRC is : $3F6405 (good)
>
> Bytes read    : $00000130
>
> vfy is a multi-bladed swiss army knife.  Check it out.  It should be on my
> web page. The CoCo-os9-stf link I think.
>
> Cheers, Gene
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