[Coco] A good OS9 utility for Gene

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 18 October 2012 16:47:44 Bill Pierce did opine:

> 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
> 
Sounds neat Bill, next time I have a need for it, it will get taken for a 
walk.

> Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Bill Pierce
> ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----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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