[Coco] Nother question, deldir in a script this time

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 18 October 2012 16:21:50 Retro Canada did opine:

> dw will work fine without scdwn

Which I may have to remove, as nuking covdg didn't gain me a byte of 
memory.

Sitting at the keyboard working on that (and GSort too since dirsort 
doesn't clean up as well as GSort does) made me think of the next utility 
we need.  The boot module for the hardware of choice gets the address and 
size of the OS9Boot file from LSN0's DD.BT and DD.SIZ, not from a directory 
entry.  Currently my LSN0 has that pointed at the actual first byte of that 
file, where ever, as in which vdisk it is located in, and current set to 
vdisk 128 + the offset to that file.

So after we say goodbye this evening to an old teacher friend who passed 
Tuesday, I may get started on a utility called vboot that takes a decimal 
argument and edits the /dd LSN0 to point it at the correct vdisk image.  
Like if I have a stripped boot on vdisk-129, and a full dw boot on 
vdisk-130, I can boot my choice by issuing a vboot 129, reboot, or a vboot 
130;reboot, greatly simplifying how we can change boot profiles.

Doesn't this sound like a much more quickly usable thing to do rather than 
rebooting back to hdbdos, finding link.bas and running that to do the same 
thing?

Comments plz.

Cheers, Gene
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