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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STe TOS BUG
Keywords: ste, tos, bugs
Message-ID: <1832@atari.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 20:59:28 GMT
References: <2311@pkmab.se> <1816@atari.UUCP> <4716947a.71d0@apollo.HP.COM>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) asks:
| are there ROMs which say "1.6" which really contain different things?

Yes there are!  The STE_FIX.PRG knows which version needs the fix and 
which version doesn't.  The program is available in the countries
to which the earlier dated ROM revision was released.  All a user needs
to do is run STE_FIX and it will refuse to install itself if the TOS
version doesn't need the fix.

Incidentally, the original 1.6 revision has an os_date in the os header
of 0x07291989, the corrected revision is dated 0x10171989 (that date
ring any bells for anyone? ;)


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