[Coco] A good OS9 utility for Gene

[Bill Pierce]

Gene, not sure it was even Kevins file, that just seems to come to mind. At the time, I had recieved a pile of disks from someone who was getting rid of Coco stuff. I know he was (the friend) frequently on the Raleigh Color Computer Club BBS and not on Delphi or CIS.

 I've used Med since about 87 and have never seen it fail.... so maybe it's not Kevin's now that I think about it :-)

It also does direct memory blocks. Type "med" to get the usage and in the program, type "?" to get the help file.

Bill

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 4:21 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] A good OS9 utility for Gene


On Thursday 18 October 2012 16:11:24 Bill Pierce did opine:

> Gene, and anyone else that's interested..
> 
> I have a utility that I've used since the late 80s. It's "almost"
> exactly like ded but with a few command changes. It's called "med". It
> will edit a module (ded style) in memory. I don't think it cares if the
> moduleis in use or not. Instead of ded'ing the OS9boot, I use med and
> then cobbler a new boot, eliminating backing up the old boot etc. In a
> lot of cases, it saves me a lot of time. Yes, when you want to change
> one byte in a descriptor in your os9boot, ded is the tool. But when
> making a new boot and you need to say... change names of a mod, med
> works great.
> 
> I've never seen this file mentioned here or anywhere else for that
> matter, then or now. I'm not sure, but I want to say this file came
> from a download of lzh of some of Kevin Darling's stuff from a Raleigh,
> NC BBS (downloaded in the late 80s) which was Kevin's home and also the
> host for the local CC club that Kevin was member (Pres?).
> 
>   Anyway, this file is one useful little tool.
> 
> Hope it helps someone sometime..
> Bill P
> 
> Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Bill Pierce
> ooogalapasooo at aol.com

Thanks Bill, and no I've not seen that before.  I trust it is stable?  In 
the past, some of Kevins work needed to be followed with a broom and 
dustpan because it needed to be picked up and put back in.  That Christmas 
present rbf release in '88 or 89 being one example, he took its ability to 
function with cluster sizes other than 1 out.  I put that back in 20 or so 
years ago.  To this day, I've no clue why he did that.  I did have to 
invent a hard coded define that SHOULD have been in RBFDefs, but never was 
in any copy I had including the original level ones, before V1.00.01 was 
released.

Cheers, Gene
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