Sieve-16.asm, Life.asm and Fib-16.asm could be read on the machine and not assembled on it.
All three #Include print.asm, and print.asm was not on the disk.
/LIB WAS STILL A HAND-WRITTEN LIST. Programs/Libraries is what an #Include means when it is
not a CosmOS source - print, the integer helpers, the maths - and nobody had thought to name
them, which is the exact failure mirroring the sources was meant to end. It is mirrored now,
so the next one nobody thinks of is there anyway.
AND THE ASSEMBLER SAID NOTHING USEFUL. A missing include returned a failure and printed no
message, so the catch-all at the top said "nothing was written", which is true and useless -
finding out why meant reading the assembler rather than the message. It names the file now,
and where it looked:
cannot find print.asm, not beside the file that asked and not as /Lib/print.asm
Both halves are worth having, because a name that is in neither place is usually one or the
other spelt wrong. The same shape as More's "error 2": a program that knows exactly what
happened, reporting a number or nothing at all.
The disk also depends on the recipe that lays it out now. It did not, so adding the libraries
left an image built without them and the next run reported the same thing missing - which
sends you looking at the change you just made rather than at the stale thing in front of you.
It cost twenty minutes to notice.
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