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AnachronautandClaude Opus 5 a13bbeb4db ls, a listing laid out to be read
> ls
  Copy.sbx   Say.sbx    Where.sbx  Walk.sbx   ls.sbx     Lander     where.sh

dir says what is there one line each, with sizes and a tally of the disk.
This says the names in columns and nothing else, which is what you want
ninety times in a hundred. Two programs rather than one with a switch,
because they answer different questions and neither answer is a worse
version of the other.

AND THIS IS A PROGRAM WHERE DIR IS BUILT IN, which is the difference that
matters when the disk is what you are doubting: dir is already in memory
and this has to be loaded off the disk it is about to list. The daily
driver and the diagnostic.

Two passes over the directory and no buffer at all. Columns need the
longest name before the first line can be printed, which usually means
holding every name - twenty four bytes each against a format that allows
1,024 entries. Walking twice costs a read of each directory block, into a
buffer that is already there.

Across and not down. Real listings go down the columns so that names next
to each other alphabetically are next to each other on the screen, and
that reason depends on sorting - which nothing here does. With the order
arbitrary, down-and-across buys nothing and costs a division.

Directories in blue and wearing a separator, unfinished saves in red,
everything else plain: whether a file is runnable cannot be known without
opening it, and opening every file in a directory to colour a listing is
a price nobody agreed to pay. The colour reaches a terminal as well as
the screen, so it is one mechanism and not two.

---- Three bugs, and one of them is this machine's oldest trap ----

nameLength answered in A, and a RET puts A back the way the caller had
it. So it answered with nothing, and every gap between the columns came
out the same width because the padding was subtracting whatever A
happened to hold. Q is the ALU's output and nothing puts it back, which
is why every answer here comes home in it.

The padding subtracted the other way round - the name from the cell -
which borrowed on every name that was not the longest, so all of them
took the "wider than its cell" path and the listing came out separated by
one space.

And padding after a name left trailing spaces on every line that did not
fill its last column. It goes before the next name now, so spaces only
ever fall between two things and a line ends on a name.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
2026-09-06 19:29:02 -04:00

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CosmOS
> monitor
x examine, d disassemble, a assemble, s set, b bank, g go, exit leaves
* b nonsense
b <program|data|number>
* b 9
there is no such bank
* load greet.sbx
loaded, starting at 5000
* b program
bank 00
* d 5000
5000 47 00 30 00 SETD.0 3000
5004 72 10 SWI 10
5006 47 00 30 44 SETD.0 3044
500A 72 10 SWI 10
500C 47 00 30 7A SETD.0 307A
5010 27 1F INIB 1F
5012 72 11 SWI 11
5014 47 00 30 5D SETD.0 305D
* x 5000
5000 47 00 30 00 72 10 47 00 30 44 72 10 47 00 30 7A G.0.r.G.0Dr.G.0z
5010 27 1F 72 11 47 00 30 5D 72 10 47 00 30 7A 72 10 '.r.G.0]r.G.0zr.
5020 47 00 30 65 72 10 20 72 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 G.0er. r........
5030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
* b data
bank 01
* x 3000
3000 61 20 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 2C 20 6C 6F 61 64 65 a program, loade
3010 64 20 6F 66 66 20 61 20 64 69 73 6B 2C 20 72 75 d off a disk, ru
3020 6E 6E 69 6E 67 20 6F 6E 20 74 68 65 20 73 79 73 nning on the sys
3030 74 65 6D 20 74 68 61 74 20 6C 6F 61 64 65 64 20 tem that loaded
* b 2
bank 02
* x 0
0000 01 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010 03 FF 08 00 00 00 00 00 01 20 01 00 00 00 00 00 ......... ......
0020 00 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0030 00 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
* s 0 FF
that bank will not be written
* b program
bank 00
* s 8000 26 48 D1 00 26 0A D1 00 18 12
* d 8000
8000 26 48 INIA 48
8002 D1 00 OUTA 00
8004 26 0A INIA 0A
8006 D1 00 OUTA 00
8008 18 SHR
8009 12 AND
800A 00 ?
800B 00 ?
* g 8000
H
that byte is not an instruction, at 800A
A 85 B 3F Q 05
the program was stopped
* d 8000
8000 26 48 INIA 48
8002 D1 00 OUTA 00
8004 26 0A INIA 0A
8006 D1 00 OUTA 00
8008 18 SHR
8009 12 AND
800A 00 ?
800B 00 ?
* b data
bank 01
* s 8100 68 65 6C 6C 6F 2C 20 74 79 70 65 64 0A 00
* b program
bank 00
* a 8200
8200: SETD.0 8100
8204: SWI 10
8206: lda.2
8208: LDD.0.1
820B: frobnicate
no such instruction
820B: INIA
that one needs a value after it
820B: SWI 12
820D: .
* d 8200
8200 47 00 81 00 SETD.0 8100
8204 72 10 SWI 10
8206 42 02 LDA.2
8208 4A 00 01 LDD.0.1
820B 72 12 SWI 12
820D 00 ?
820E 00 ?
820F 00 ?
* g 8200
hello, typed
finished
* exit
> dir
greet.sbx 211
hello.sbx 53
Life.sbx 1396
Snake.sbx 2164
Keys.sbx 664
Say.sbx 156
Where.sbx 827
Break.sbx 149
Grid.sbx 571
Press.sbx 872
Mode.sbx 48
Flip.sbx 173
Sprite.sbx 442
Depth.sbx 672
Packages <dir>
Pad.sbx 264
Crash.sbx 632
vars.script 50
blocks.script 343
loops.script 272
tune.sbx 318
Play.sbx 2526
notes.txt 21
Apps <dir>
hi.script 121
bad.script 45
plain.script 24
cross.script 280
nonl.script 38
outer.script 376
inner.script 44
loop.script 35
hush.script 42
aloud.script 59
args.script 64
pass.script 20
holds.script 87
35 files, 2 directories
47 of 64 entries, 1890 blocks free
> exit
halted
Execution halted.
[exit 0]