[Coco] bootlink progress

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 20 October 2012 09:54:26 Chris Hawks did opine:

> On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:30:24 -0400
> 
> Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > First, it's been since early 2008 when I last wrote any os9 assembly
> > stuff, meaning my wet ram is bright red with rust. ;)
> > 
> > But I'm making progress I think.
> > 
> > The first thing it needs in the way of data is a copy of /dd's LSN0,
> > and I have that working, with proof being I have it dumping the
> > readlsn0 buffer back to a file that can be inspected with ded.
> > 
> > So now I have maybe 2 bugs, as it appears that dump doesn't like a
> > filename like bootlink-trace, it won't dump it, but doesn't return an
> > error either! ded can look at it just fine, and the data is correct.
> > 
> > Yes, its a bug in dump, I renamed the file from bootlink-trace to
> > bootlink.trace, and dump works just fine.  Makes me wish I had a
> > gallon jug of an old insect killer called Cooks Real-Kill.
> > 
> > Tomorrows project will be to parse the command line and recover the
> > vdisk number entered and convert it to a hex number in one byte.
> > 
> > No one has said whether they think this utility might be useful to
> > them. Perhaps I haven't explained it enough?
> 
> 	Sounds handy Gene! I'm waiting with 'breathed bait'.

Thanks Chris.

Cheers, Gene
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