Gene Heskett - Revision history

Boisy at 19:45, 8 March 2007

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	Gene Heskett redid or wrote several of the OS-9/[[NitrOS-9 \|NitrOS-9]] utilities from scratch.		Maurice Gene Heskett redid or wrote several of the OS-9/[[NitrOS-9 \|NitrOS-9]] utilities from scratch.

	*Gsort, for sorting directories alphabeticly. a re-write with improved housekeeping. Get it from RTSI		*Gsort, for sorting directories alphabeticly. a re-write with improved housekeeping. Get it from RTSI

AllenHuffman at 05:46, 7 February 2007

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	You can email Gene at: gene.heskett@verizon.net		You can email Gene at: gene.heskett@verizon.net

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Auscoco at 08:06, 18 April 2006

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	Gene Heskett redid or wrote several of the OS-9/NitrOS-9 utilities from scratch.		Gene Heskett redid or wrote several of the OS-9/[[NitrOS-9 \|NitrOS-9]] utilities from scratch.

	*Gsort, for sorting directories alphabeticly. a re-write with improved housekeeping. Get it from RTSI		*Gsort, for sorting directories alphabeticly. a re-write with improved housekeeping. Get it from RTSI

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	You can email Gene at: gene.heskett@verizon.net		You can email Gene at: gene.heskett@verizon.net

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Boisy at 23:24, 23 October 2005

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	~~Hi, I'm~~ Gene ~~heskett, and I~~ redid or wrote ~~from scratch,~~ several of the ~~os9~~/~~nitros9~~ utilities.		Gene Heskett redid or wrote several of the OS-9/NitrOS-9 utilities from scratch.

	*Gsort, for sorting directories alphabeticly. a re-write with improved housekeeping. Get it from RTSI		*Gsort, for sorting directories alphabeticly. a re-write with improved housekeeping. Get it from RTSI
	*Printform, a print formatter for text that worked fairly well, a re-write with lots of new bells and whistles.		*Printform, a print formatter for text that worked fairly well, a re-write with lots of new bells and whistles.
	~~I think thats on~~ RTSI too.		On RTSI too.
	*Cprep19, a replacement for the ~~MicroWare~~ c.prep, first offered by Mathew Thompson, and extended enough that it could handle c src files in excess of 32k in size without handling errors. As usual, on RTSI.		*Cprep19, a replacement for the Microware c.prep, first offered by Mathew Thompson, and extended enough that it could handle c src files in excess of 32k in size without handling errors. As usual, on RTSI.
	*vfy, a from scratch effort, intended to mimic an ~~osk~~ utility, but ended up being far more capable in terms of what it could do to an executable file. Mark ~~IIRC,~~ once referred to it as a swiss army knife for object code modules. Also available from RTSI		*vfy, a from scratch effort, intended to mimic an OSK utility, but ended up being far more capable in terms of what it could do to an executable file. Mark Marlette once referred to it as a swiss army knife for object code modules. Also available from RTSI.
	*~~Os9~~/~~nitros9~~ was a very educational operating system. I even did a couple of releases of the rbf.mn for nitros9, one of which inadvertantly contained a bomb that would wipe out the filesystem. But that was fixed in later patches.		*OS-9/NitrOS-9 was a very educational operating system. Gene even did a couple of releases of the rbf.mn for nitros9, one of which inadvertantly contained a bomb that would wipe out the filesystem. But that was fixed in later patches.

	<NOTE: Here's a quote from the source to rbf.asm referring to Gene's contribution:		<NOTE: Here's a quote from the source to rbf.asm referring to Gene's contribution:
			Gene Heskett's STUPID "LDA #$01, STA $00FF,u" CRAP went here. DAMN DAMN DAMN
	* Gene Heskett's STUPID "LDA #$01, STA $00FF,u" CRAP went here. DAMN DAMN DAMN		He's NEVER getting the RBF source again!
	* He's NEVER getting the RBF source again!

	END NOTE>		END NOTE>

	There are other ~~utils I~~ cleaned up too, like cron. ~~So if~~ you need a ~~unix~~ like cron for ~~os9~~, there is a working version of that on RTSI ~~I believe~~.		There are other utilities Gene cleaned up too, like cron. If you need a UNIX-like cron for OS-9, there is a working version of that on RTSI.

	I no longer ~~run~~ a ~~coco~~ for daily use, running ~~linux~~ now, but I still ~~have~~ the ~~coco3,~~ operational~~, that I~~ did all that on.		Gene no longer runs a CoCo for daily use, as he is running Linux now, but he still has the same CoCo 3 operational on which he did all that work on.

	~~Email to~~: ~~g e n e~~ . ~~h e s k e t t AT v e r i z o n~~ . ~~n e t~~		You can email Gene at: gene.heskett@verizon.net

AllenHuffman at 20:54, 15 September 2005

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	Hi, I'm Gene heskett, and I redid or wrote from scratch, several of the os9/nitros9 utilities.		Hi, I'm Gene heskett, and I redid or wrote from scratch, several of the os9/nitros9 utilities.

AllenHuffman at 20:53, 15 September 2005

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	<NOTE>The NitrOS-9 Wiki Page should not be used to highlight one's own work to the extent that it takes up 90% of the entire page (shaking my head). I've relinked the ancestor page to NitrOS-9 instead of this one, so it won't be seen by the outside world. -- Boisy Pitre
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	Hi, I'm Gene heskett, and I redid or wrote from scratch, several of the os9/nitros9 utilities.		Hi, I'm Gene heskett, and I redid or wrote from scratch, several of the os9/nitros9 utilities.

	Gsort, for sorting directories alphabeticly. a re-write with improved housekeeping. Get it from RTSI		*Gsort, for sorting directories alphabeticly. a re-write with improved housekeeping. Get it from RTSI
			*Printform, a print formatter for text that worked fairly well, a re-write with lots of new bells and whistles.
	Printform, a print formatter for text that worked fairly well, a re-write with lots of new bells and whistles.
	I think thats on RTSI too.		I think thats on RTSI too.
			*Cprep19, a replacement for the MicroWare c.prep, first offered by Mathew Thompson, and extended enough that it could handle c src files in excess of 32k in size without handling errors. As usual, on RTSI.
	Cprep19, a replacement for the MicroWare c.prep, first offered by Mathew Thompson, and extended enough that it could handle c src files in excess of 32k in size without handling errors. As usual, on RTSI.		*vfy, a from scratch effort, intended to mimic an osk utility, but ended up being far more capable in terms of what it could do to an executable file. Mark IIRC, once referred to it as a swiss army knife for object code modules. Also available from RTSI
			*Os9/nitros9 was a very educational operating system. I even did a couple of releases of the rbf.mn for nitros9, one of which inadvertantly contained a bomb that would wipe out the filesystem. But that was fixed in later patches.
	vfy, a from scratch effort, intended to mimic an osk utility, but ended up being far more capable in terms of what it could do to an executable file. Mark IIRC, once referred to it as a swiss army knife for object code modules. Also available from RTSI

	Os9/nitros9 was a very educational operating system. I even did a couple of releases of the rbf.mn for nitros9, one of which inadvertantly contained a bomb that would wipe out the filesystem. But that was fixed in later patches.

	<NOTE: Here's a quote from the source to rbf.asm referring to Gene's contribution:		<NOTE: Here's a quote from the source to rbf.asm referring to Gene's contribution:

Boisy at 14:13, 15 September 2005

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Boisy at 14:12, 15 September 2005

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	Os9/nitros9 was a very educational operating system. I even did a couple of releases of the rbf.mn for nitros9, one of which inadvertantly contained a bomb that would wipe out the filesystem. But that was fixed in later patches.		Os9/nitros9 was a very educational operating system. I even did a couple of releases of the rbf.mn for nitros9, one of which inadvertantly contained a bomb that would wipe out the filesystem. But that was fixed in later patches.

			<NOTE: Here's a quote from the source to rbf.asm referring to Gene's contribution:

			* Gene Heskett's STUPID "LDA #$01, STA $00FF,u" CRAP went here. DAMN DAMN DAMN
			* He's NEVER getting the RBF source again!

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	There are other utils I cleaned up too, like cron. So if you need a unix like cron for os9, there is a working version of that on RTSI I believe.		There are other utils I cleaned up too, like cron. So if you need a unix like cron for os9, there is a working version of that on RTSI I believe.

Boisy at 14:11, 15 September 2005

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