diff --git a/.Floppies/A2OSX.BUILD.po b/.Floppies/A2OSX.BUILD.po
index 552e16f0..5a692b00 100644
Binary files a/.Floppies/A2OSX.BUILD.po and b/.Floppies/A2OSX.BUILD.po differ
diff --git a/BIN/IRC.S.txt b/BIN/IRC.S.txt
index b2d4ee8a..679406ed 100644
--- a/BIN/IRC.S.txt
+++ b/BIN/IRC.S.txt
@@ -273,12 +273,17 @@ CS.RUN.LOOP		>SLEEP
 				tay
 				bne .2
 
+				lda #"I"
+				sta $427
 				>PUSHWI MSGSIZE
 				>PUSHW ZPMsgPtr
 				lda hFile
 				>SYSCALL fgets
 				bcs .9
 
+				lda #"O"
+				sta $427
+
 				jsr CS.RUN.REQ
 				bcs .9
 				
@@ -848,7 +853,7 @@ CS.RUN.CHARIN.INS
 CS.RUN.CHARIN.CTRL
 				cmp #C.CR
 				bne .1
-
+			
 				bit bJoin
 				bpl .8
 
diff --git a/SYS/KERNEL.S.STDIO.txt b/SYS/KERNEL.S.STDIO.txt
index c42f38c3..feafd3fb 100644
--- a/SYS/KERNEL.S.STDIO.txt
+++ b/SYS/KERNEL.S.STDIO.txt
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ K.PutChar		>PUSHA					character
 				jsr K.FPutC
 				bcc K.PutChar.RTS
 
-				tay 					E.NODATA
-				bpl K.PutChar.RTS
+				cmp #E.NODATA
+				bne K.PutChar.RTS
 
 				inc						0 = BLOCKING
 
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ K.FPutC			jsr PFT.CheckNodeA
 				>PUSHWI K.IOBuf			buf
 				jsr UNISTD.Write
 				bcc K.PutChar.RET1		pop char...
-				tay						E.NODATA
-				bpl K.PutChar.RET1
+				cmp #E.NODATA
+				bne K.PutChar.RET1
 
 				inc						0 = BLOCKING
 *				sec
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ K.PutS			>STYA ZPPtr2
 				lda	(pPS),y
 				jsr K.FPutS
 				bcc K.PutS.RTS
-				tay
+				
+				cmp #E.NODATA
 				bne K.PutS.RTS			0 = BLOCKING
 
 *				sec
@@ -153,8 +154,9 @@ K.FPutS			jsr PFT.CheckNodeA		set IO.hFD
 				>PUSHW ZPPtr2
 				jsr UNISTD.Write
 				bcc K.PutS.RET2
-				tay
-				bpl K.PutS.RET2			IO Error
+				
+				cmp #E.NODATA
+				bne K.PutS.RET2			IO Error
 				inc						FF-> 0 = BLOCKING
 *				sec
 K.FPutS.RTS		rts			
@@ -199,11 +201,13 @@ K.FGetS			jsr PFT.CheckNodeA
 			
 .1				jsr STDIO.Get.1
 				bcc .2
+
 				cmp #MLI.E.EOF
 				beq .9
 
-				tay
-				bpl .9					IO error
+				cmp #E.NODATA
+				bne .9					IO error
+
 				inc						NO DATA -> BLOCKING
 				rts
 
@@ -235,12 +239,15 @@ K.FGetS			jsr PFT.CheckNodeA
 				lda K.IOBuf
 				cmp #C.CR
 				beq .8
+				
 				jsr SHARED.PutCharPtr2
 				bra .3
+				
 .5				cmp #MLI.E.EOF
 				beq .8					String terminated by EOF
-				tay
-				bpl .9					I/O error
+
+				cmp #E.NODATA
+				bne .9					I/O error
 
 				lda ZPPtr2				NO DATA, but string not yet terminated
 				sta (pStack)			s
@@ -297,8 +304,9 @@ K.GetC			jsr PFT.CheckNodeA
 
 				jsr STDIO.Get.1
 				bcc .8
-				tay
-				bpl K.GetC.RTS			I/O error
+				
+				cmp #E.NODATA
+				bne K.GetC.RTS			I/O error
 
 				inc						0 = BLOCKING
 				rts
@@ -431,8 +439,8 @@ K.FWrite		jsr PFT.CheckNodeA
 				jsr UNISTD.Write
 				bcc K.FWrite.RTS
 
-K.FWrite.9		tay
-				bpl K.FWrite.RTS		IO Error
+K.FWrite.9		cmp #E.NODATA
+				bne K.FWrite.RTS		IO Error
 
 				dec pStack				FF = NODATA
 				dec pStack
diff --git a/SYS/KERNEL.S.txt b/SYS/KERNEL.S.txt
index 8d23adff..abd24d94 100644
--- a/SYS/KERNEL.S.txt
+++ b/SYS/KERNEL.S.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ A2osX.D1.B		.PH	$D000
 				.INB usr/src/sys/kernel.s.unistd
 				.INB usr/src/sys/kernel.s.stdio
 				.INB usr/src/sys/kernel.s.stdio2
-				.INB usr/src/sys/kernel.s.dev
 				.EP
 A2osX.D1.S		.EQ *-A2osX.D1.B
 
@@ -117,6 +116,7 @@ A2osX.E0.B		.PH $E000
 				.INB usr/src/sys/kernel.s.mem
 * go to A2osX.D1
 				.INB usr/src/sys/kernel.s.pipe
+				.INB usr/src/sys/kernel.s.dev
 
 DevMgr.Timer	.BS 1
 DevMgr.Stat		.DA DevMgr.FreeMem