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DragASprite CMOS byte

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From: /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/AD...
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 21:31
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jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) wrote:

(about using *fx 162,28,3 to set the DragASprite CMOS bit)

>Well, academically, it's not a good way to do it, but seing as how the
>default value is 2 and you want to set bit 1 (thus needing a final value of
>3) this seems perfectly adequate.

...

>I mean, is there *anyone* out there whose byte has a value other than 2 or
>3?

You asked for it :-) - I have a value of 0 in that byte. The bottom bit is
the *Configure Truncate bit, which I always have set to Off. This gives the
RISC OS 2 behaviour of giving an error if I try to save a file with a name
above the length limits. With truncate set to On, the filing system doing 
the file creation just truncates the filename to whatever the limit on that
filing system is.

Owen. (owen.smith%gb.interspan.sj-research@mhs-relay.ac.uk)
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