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Article #2410Re: ZOO bombs
From: Lee Dickey
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1989 02:44
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1989 02:44
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In article <8907131551.AA27783@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> AWINFHAH@HMARL5.BITNET writes:
>I just acquired ZOO from the SSYX server before it went down. I like the
>features, but I observe it throwing three bombs (address error). I have a
>ramdisk (an ancient one from Gert Slavenburg, works fine all the time).
>When ZOO and the archive are both on the ramdisk (drive D:), zoo bombs.
>When ZOO is on the ramdisk, and the archive is on the floppy, it works!
>I have a 1040 with the 1985 roms. Any pointers???
I suspect the ramdisk. I used ZOO with ETRNL2 by Moshe Braner.
and had nothing like the problem you mention. This ram disk,
like many ram disks today, survives warm boot. You can control
the size and name of the disk. The program is very small,
presumably because it is written in assembler.
--
L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ZOO bombs Message-ID: <2514@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 17 Jul 89 02:44:07 GMT References: <8907131551.AA27783@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 19