Re: Another OS/8 trivia question

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From: Steven L. Johnson
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:26

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kerry@Ingres.COM (Kerry Kurasaki) writes:

>Anyone know how OS/8 knows if batch is running?  That is, how does
>KMON know to get stuff from the file instead of the keyboard?

By looking at location 7777 in field 0.  Actually I knew it
was someplace in the last few words of field 0, but had to look
it up to remember which one.

-Steve "been a few years since I wrote disk drivers for OS/8"

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