[Coco] data modules

[Stephen H. Fischer]

I do wonder if sharing data was only why it was created. (Get/put buffers are a Level-II creation are they not?)

Dibble's notes were written in what year? I can see an embedded OS-9 system needing to share data, OS-9 Level-I manual is AWOL.

The authors of Shell+ may have also driven the creation as 1988 was when datamod was created and I jumped on datamod as soon as it appeared as I was writing Shell+ scripts in volume. I even wrote a Shell+ subroutine (Vdir.lzh) and I know of only one other except what was in the Shell+ package. Perhaps even a more useful one to blow my own horn.

They created a treat of a Shell and I used almost all of it's features. A little awkward but contained most of the features available on the Super Computer I was programming for. So much of what was created on Delphi and CI$ has been forgotten.

That Shell+ has been reduced to a shell of it's former glory sickens me, somebody needs to test if data modules containing a script work on NitrOS-9, ~ 50% reduction in size says much was lost.

SHF 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Philipsen" <dave at davebiz.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2017 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] data modules


>I don't think there's really much to a data module other than setting 
> the attributes correctly.  It's purpose would be to share common data 
> among multiple processes.  The format of the data module would be 
> entirely up to the creator of it.  As long as all processes that will 
> use the data module understand the format then the data is organized in 
> any way you want and each process would know how to access it.
>