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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET ("Julian F. Reschke")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: AMCGDOS
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Date: 16 Jun 89 09:50:52 GMT
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Bruce Heimbigner writes:

>I was able to UUD and ARCX the AMCDDOS.UUE, no problem. the program
>definately speeds up GDOS programs and printer output. I had no problems
>with easydraw, degas, or spectrum 512, but WordUp choked on some files
>with an error GDOS - Invalid file handles (or some such thing) several times
>while loading the file, but the file loaded just fine nothing missing
>...

AMCGDOS displays the alert 'Invalid GDOS handle', if a program does
a vdi call with an unused vdi handle. In most cases, the program
attempted to use vdi-handle 0, which is ILLEGAL.