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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Question about multiple serial boards
Message-ID: <14142@grebyn.com>
Date: 16 Jan 90 15:12:57 GMT
References: <7970@nigel.udel.EDU> <14137@grebyn.com> <130261@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
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In article <130261@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <14137@grebyn.com> (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>>board, but we do supply a utility which can make one. The ZapPort
>>utility on the driver disk automatically patches executable programs to
>
>God what non-technoweenie in their right mind would buy a product that
>encouraged them to damage the software they already own! 

	In fact we don't encourage people to zap their
executables; ZapPort was rather a last minute addition.  Instead we
reccommend that a user use the NewPort utility; this leaves the
executable untouched but creates a separate loader program which will
load in the application and alter it in RAM. (It has the interesting
side-benefit that your pointer is available more quickly after
double-clicking the app in Workbench, which only has to load a small
file rather than the whole application.)  However, this will only work
with WorkBench- or CLI-launched applications, not with handlers or
drivers.