[Coco] unsilly Q about the os9 startup file

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I am not sure the other answers are what you want.

I would do something like saving the edited work with a new name.

Then start a new shell (or two) and then terminate the original shell.

Then in one of your new shells do the renaming so that what you want is the 
active startup.

The first script I use in VCC starts two new shells with better colors for 
my eyes and then changes the color of the original shell.

I have broken my VHD but I started a new shell with "shell i=/w &" and was 
able to terminate the first shell with "EX".

The new shell continued to work so I think that what I suggested works.

SHF



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 7:16 PM
Subject: [Coco] unsilly Q about the os9 startup file


> Greetings folks;
>
> I think I asked this before but if I got an answer, I do not now recall
> what it was.
>
> Situation:
>
> I need to edit the startup file I am using, but any attempt to save the
> changes gets a "disk error".
>
> Its as if the shell that launched it at startup, is still trying to 
> execute
> it and still has a lock on the file.  In linux, an lsof could show me, but
> all I know at this time is that the file does end with a proper carriage
> return.
>
> So if that is the case, I can only think of one way to do it, which would
> be to edit the backup on the other disk, and then edit the bootfile to
> change /dd back to /s1, and /dh back to /dd. And reboot.  But, that sure
> seems like doing an edit the hard way to me.
>
> This is what proc thinks is running 4 hours after the latest reboot:
> {t2|07}/DD/NITROS9/dw3install/6309L2/SCRIPTS:proc
>
> ID Prnt User Pty  Age  Tsk  Status  Signal   Module    I/O Paths
> ___ ____ ____ ___  ___  ___  _______ __  __  _________ __________________
>  1   0    0  255  255   00  sTimOut  0  00  System    <Term >Term >>Term
>  2   1    0  128  128   00  sTimOut  0  00  Shell     <Term >Term >>Term
>  3   7    0  128  128   02  s        0  00  Proc      <t2   >t2   >>t2
>  5   0    0  128  128   00  s        0  00  Shell     <W4   >W4   >>W4
>  6   0    0  128  131   00  s        0  00  Shell     <W1   >W1   >>W1
>  7   0    0  128  131   00  s        0  00  Shell     <t2   >t2   >>t2
>  8   0    0  128  179   00  s        0  00  inetd     <DD   >Term >>Term
>
> Any ideas on a non-switch it all fix?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene
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