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Re: 823k compression source

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From: Peter Missel
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 17:01
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m> magic = $87654321 (a constant used for formatting)
m>
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m>
m>This little "magic number" always puzzled me. Would it be, by an chance,
m>the skewing for the track? Or is is just a value the 1772 needs?

It's just for programmers' safety. When this magic number is not present in the
parameter list for the XBios call, you might have called the Flopfmt() function
by accident, instead of calling, say, Floprd(). Without the magic number's
safety, off goes your data. With it, XBios returns an error code.
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Subject: Re: 823k compression source
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