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Re: Large executables

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From: Allan Pratt
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1988 19:21
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In article <19880907153917.7.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:
> Last night I booted my ST WITHOUT Turbodos for the first time in many
> months. ... The only thing that seems
> at all funny about it is that it's enormous (395K).  

This is a known bug: if a program file has more than 32 kilobytes of
fixups, Pexec dies horribly.  It's fixed.

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt
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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Large executables
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Date: 8 Sep 88 19:21:32 GMT
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Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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