#: 18517 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    08-Aug-93  13:27:20
Sb: #18511-#to cio or not to cio?
Fm: Bob Palmer 74646,2156
To: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 (X)

Hooray!!.  Someone is at last talking my language.  CIO (and I think also the
math package) are a real pain to me - not that they do not work or save memory
because they do but because I use a TC70 which at the moment runs OSK - drat
can't remember the number - but it is -aha - 2.3 - and of course the MM1 and
the Gresick machine use 2.4 This means that unless the source is included I get
the dreaded error telling mee that my CIO or math modules are incorrect.  Most
frustrating to have software which would work perfectly be unavailable because
only the object code is available and it complains about either cio or math.
and that wants the correct version of OSK to live. You are no doubt correct
that the differences are few and that the versions do not change often but it
just so happens that there are a lot of 2.3 machines in existance as well as a
lot of 2.4's.  I do not think that we need worry about 2. 2.2 - it has most
probably been updated. Even FHL promise - "soon" to make available 2.4 for the
TC70 and their other older machines but who knows when that will be.  The more
time passes the more the machines fade from memory and the more new and
pressing problems come between me and 2.4. Bob P.


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