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Article #37570Re: Obliterating your boot sector, Part I
From: Ken Badertscher
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 09:49
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 09:49
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In article <2938@brunix.UUCP> rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) writes:
|OK, here I am...peacefully working on a contract program. Suddenly,
|I decide that, for various reasons, it would be a useful thing to
|be able to detect whether GDOS is installed on the user's machine.
|
[stuff about HD boot sector mysteriously disappearing after TRAP #2]
|
|My question is: was this a co-ink-ee-dink, or did the TRAP #2 put
|my Atari into the twilight zone?
Coincidence? Maybe. But there is no way that a GDOS Trap #2 inquiry
could waste your hard disk's boot sector. Got any other evil, insidious
memory resident tools lurking in your system?
--
Ken Badertscher | #include <disclaimer>
Atari R&D Software Engine | GEMDOS LIVES! ...or is that Frodo?
{portal,ames,imagen}!atari!kbad | I can never remember these things...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!kbad From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Obliterating your boot sector, Part I Message-ID: <1418@atari.UUCP> Date: 31 Mar 89 09:49:43 GMT References: <2938@brunix.UUCP> Reply-To: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 18