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Article #26820Re: ...GEMBOOT... (really usage of shell_p)
From: t68
Date: Fri, 15 May 1987 10:23
Date: Fri, 15 May 1987 10:23
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To add a little bit to the confusion: I ran a complete disassembly of the ROMs and NOWHERE in the ROMs there exists the hard address 4F6 = _shell_p. This means that the ROMs don't dictate its use and any information about that use must come either from DRI ( the makers ) or Atari. The other possibility is that people start allocating the allegedly unused spot by themselves like Konrad Hahn has done apparently. Clearly this location was NOT meant for the way gemboot uses it as AES uses no variables in that range and it sits between a couple of GemDos variables. Therefore I believe that the use suggested by Allan Pratt is the correct use, and that gemboot should look for another location. Anyway I think that Atari should now tell us which address to use for the gemboot trick of passing resource directory information and which one for the communication between a shell program and its child processes. Jos Vermaseren t68@nikhefh.uucp
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