[Coco] Gene's script...

[Bob Devries]

Please ignore my previous email. I must not have been holding my mouth right 
;) Works now.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tormod Volden" <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Gene's script...


> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Bob Devries wrote:
>> Thanks, Tormod.
>>
>> I have done as you suggested. I can indeed run "os9" and "lwasm -V", 
>> which
>> returns "lwasm from lwtools 4.9". Is there a way (apart from a fresh 
>> pull)
>> to see which version of Toolshed I have?
>
> Unfortunately not an easy way, there will be one in Toolshed 2.2 :)
> But if your Toolshed is newer than from July you should be fine. There
> was only a padrom fix just before the release in November. To see if
> you have this fix (and thus Toolshed 2.1), run it on a file that
> already has the right size. For instance the TODO file in the nitros9
> repo is 3417 bytes. So run: os9 padrom 3417 TODO
> - If padrom just returns happily without saying anything, you have
> Toolshed 2.1 and you are good.
> - If padrom complains "padrom: file size insufficient for pad size",
> it is pre-2.1.
>
>> Gene's script just saves a lot of typing if you're doing builds 
>> regularly, I
>> think.
>
> OK. But it is not necessary to pull and rebuild lwtools and toolshed
> all the time, and also not to clone the nitros9 repo over the network
> each time.
>
> The "lot of typing" is "hg pull && hg update && make dsk". If you do
> builds regularly it makes sense to learn these commands.
>
> Regards,
> Tormod
>
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