[Coco] Potentially Dangerous Bug in Minted.

[CoCo Demus]

Well @ is potentially dangerous in OS-9 for opening raw files/devices.

>From minted point of view it just opens a file. If you use @12 with other
tools you will probably have the same behavior opening the same raw device.


On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 7:04 AM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:

>  I was editing a file called p12 with minted on my 6309 coco3 in
>  Nirtos9 3.2  after closing the file I went to reopen it by typing
>  minted p12 but I accidentally typed  minted @12 and minted seemed to
>  have opened the raw device /dd for editing.
>
>  Now in my work flow I have been often editing on my linux pc with
> geany,
>  transferring the file back to the coco for testing with the dw server
> list
>  command opening the file with minted, arrow down one, ^D to duplicate
> the
>  comment on line 2 and ^S to save and ESC to exit.
>
>  I do this so often It is almost automatic, fortunately I noticed that
>  I was in the wrong file, If I had of been on automatic I might have
>  trashed /dd.
>
>  Therefore: There is a bug that should be fixed in minted.
>
>  As for the  dw server list command I like it just as it is
>  because It lets me
>  do binary transfers from Linux to the Coco.
>
>  A great enhancement HOWEVER would be if instead of typing
>
>  DW SERVER LIST _external_path/filename_>_filename_
>
>  you could optionally type
>
>  DW SERVER LIST RAW _external_path/filename_>_filename_
>
>  to do exactly the same thing or
>
>  DW SERVER LIST COCOTXT _external_path/filename_ > _filename_
>
>  to have drivewire do the end of line conversions necessary to
>  put the file in a proper coco OS9 format.
>  For me this would mean that I would not need the extra step of
>  importing the file to minted only to resave just to fix the end
>  of line format.
>
> _CHARLIE_
>
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