[Coco] Update announce for gsort

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 18 October 2012 16:44:48 Bill Pierce did opine:

> Gene, Vi clashed with the vi module in the modules needed to run Sierra
> games, vi, vrn and ftdd. It was actually in the docs to the patch,
> years ago. What I couldn't understand is why call it Vanything? Why not
> call it TS or TSE? I mean... it is just patched TSEdit, it's not a
> re-write. I have wondered that since the patch came out after OS-9
> level 2 was released.
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 4:09 pm
> Subject: [Coco] Update announce for gsort
> 
> 
> This isn't anything earth shattering, or even of great importance,
> but...
> 
> There is a new GSort and GSort15.doc on my web page.  I was running the
> older version, without either cowin or covdg in my boot file, and while
> it was working there was a fleeting flicker of junk on a Term screen,
> and an error 187 shown at the end of the execution.  This didn't effect
> how V14 actually works as the job was already done when it fetched any
> error detected and reported it as it exited.  So anyway we now have a
> v15, that skips that stuff if you give it a -g on the command line. 
> The rest of it is still unchanged and works as usual.  It still cleans
> up any garbage between the d7 set last character of the name, and the
> last 3 bytes of a dir entry which is the pointer to that files FD
> sector, and if the -c option is also given, the directory file will be
> compacted, removing any and all deleted entries, and rather effectively
> removing them from the clutches of Undel.
> 
> Building this however, using the assembler I was, was a cast iron bitch!
> 
> It seems this assembler, and my term screen seems to be locked up until
> I go tap the reset key & reboot, is case sensitive, but ONLY for the
> defs, and to get gsort to assemble, I had to go through it and make
> every variable defined in defs/os9defs as partially uppercased, it had
> to match how it was shown in the defsfile.  I never ever had to fight
> with cases in the defines in years past.  That, to get them all fixed,
> was around 20 passes with vim to fix all those, and which should not
> have been required. Not on OS9, it famously is not case sensitive.
> 
> vim BTW, is the name currently patched into the vi-patched tsedit I use
> for an editor.  Because when the /v windows were added, the vi name
> somehow clashed so it had to be renamed again.
> 
> I still haven't figured that one out.
> 
> Cheers, Gene

That part is simple Bill.  It works a lot like vim here on linux, so why 
not carry on the name.  No other reason really, just me being me I guess.

Cheers, Gene
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