The makefile on the disk was fine. "Makefile" is not "makefile", and SBFS names are case
sensitive - but neither tool said so, and both failed in ways that pointed somewhere else.
MORE PRINTED A NUMBER THAT MEANT NOTHING. "cannot find the file, error 2" invents a
vocabulary the system does not have: the filesystem library documents its answer as zero or
not zero, never as a code, so 2 could not be looked up anywhere. It says "there is no file by
that name" now, which is the only way opening fails that a person can do anything about, and
is nearly always a name typed slightly wrong.
EDIT SAID "0 LINES", which is also what an empty file that IS on the disk says. A name typed
slightly wrong therefore looked exactly like the document you meant to open, right up until
you saved it somewhere new. It says "new file" instead.
Two bugs came out of writing that, and both are worth more than the feature.
The first is mine and the label lied to me: loadNothing is not where a load FAILS, it is
where every load FINISHES, reached at the end of splitLast on files that opened perfectly
well. A flag set there on the strength of the name was set on everything. It is called
loadDone now, and the failure has its own name.
The second is older and general: a program is loaded once and may be run many times, so
"load Edit.sbx" then "run" twice is two sessions over one copy of the Data Segment. Anything
a session changes has to be put back by the session. A zero written in the Data Segment is
the state a program starts in the first time and never again - and cosmosEdit runs Edit twice
from one load, which is why it caught it immediately.
AND THE FILE TOOLS COULD NOT ADDRESS THE TREE THEY NOW HAVE. Edit took 23 characters of name
and More and Type took 29, which were right when everything lived in the root. With the
sources mirrored onto the disk, "/Source/CosmOS/Assembler/classify.asm" is an ordinary thing
to type - thirty-seven characters, cut down to a name meaning something else, or nothing. All
of them take sixty-three now, which is what the shell reads of a command line, so nothing
longer can arrive. Wander with it, since a directory is a path too.
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