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From: ivan@rzsin.sin.ch (Ivan D. Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ZOO and odd addresses
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Date: 21 Nov 89 11:48:30 GMT
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	I recently had problems when I first tried to use ZOO -- it bombed
with an address trap.  It wasn't until it worked OK on another machine that
I realised that my early version of Volker Brandt's EDISK was doing the
dying due to a (known) bug in the routine to transfer to/from an odd-aligned
buffer.  I've just recieived the latest copy (EDISK V2.2) so that should
fix it, but I'd like to make a plea to the people responsible for ZOO to
please try to make sure it only uses evenly-aligned buffers for disk I/O.
As Volker says "Maybe *that's* why ZOO is so slow!" (try it yourself sometime
and see what the difference in speed is).

	PS: If anyone has a VAX/VMS version of ZOO they could send me, my
BITNET address is IVAN@CAGEIR5A.  Thanx!

			ivan