[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 18 October 2012 00:47:10 Stephen H. Fischer did opine:

> "Gene Heskett" <gheskett-ouEgS7marmk at public.gmane.org> wrote in message
> news:201210172107.33151.gheskett at wdtv.com...
> 
> > On Wednesday 17 October 2012 20:56:19 Stephen H. Fischer did opine:
> >> Hi,
> > 
> > I for one would like to see shellplus come back. Broken scripts, if
> > thats the case, are editable. Shrug.
> > 
> >> Lots of changes I would like to do to restore ShellPlus to it's glory
> >> that will break lots of scripts and user habits. Part of the reason I
> >> see a need to break from the past.
> >> 
> >> BTY, I wrote a Basic09 Preprocessor to handle #Include files that
> >> also might help.
> > 
> > Thanks SHF."
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just read "shellplus2.2a.docs" from
> ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/APPS/ShellPlus_2_2a.lzh
> 
> It scared me!
> 
> It says that "For those of you running NitrOS9, the new version 1.20
> upgrade will include
> this shell, and has an even more extensively optomized SCF (see NitrOS9
> docs for details)".
> 
> There is so much tied together that I do not believe that I can fix it
> in my remaining life time, if it is broken really bad like it might be.
> 
> It is not a simple case of my collecting from my last good system the
> ShellPlus 2.1 parts that were working well together and giving them to
> you.
> 
> I saw the same problem the day before you saw it and I do not understand
> how someone could have tried to fix something and caused what we are
> seeing.
> 
> Is there any archive of the source / parts for NitrOS-9 1.20 to compare
> the current ShellPlus with?
> 
> SHF
No clue.  But my archive of the old 7120s maxtor might have something.  
(poking at it) Yeah, the file I have as shell_21 is a very small file, not 
even $600 bytes.  The shell I am using is slightly over $1800 bytes.  No 
wonder, at that size differential there has to be a huge diff in the 
functionality too.  From vfy after I split it out, I had a bunch of utils 
appended to it also.  That merged file carries a date in 1995, but I've no 
clue how much older it may be.
{t2|08}/DD/MAXTOR/shell-stf:vfy shell     

Length of file: $000018B3
Module found at offset $00000000 in this file
Header for    : Shell
Header parity : $80 (good)
Module size   : $18B3
Edition       : $15
Ty/La At/Rv   : $11   $82
Program module, 6809 object, Re-enterable, R/O
Exec. off     : $006E
Data Size     : $1F00
Module CRC is : $40AAAC (good)
Bytes read    : $000018B3

It is attached for your snooping pleasure.  Maybe this one will be easier 
on the surrounding ears?

Cheers, Gene
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