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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Question about multiple serial boards
Message-ID: <4949@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 17 Jan 90 13:43:10 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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> 	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.

Since you're working on a copy anyway (I hope) zapping it on disk or in RAM
isn't that different. Exactly what does ZapPort do? Change "serial.device"
to "checkp.device"? Try to find the unit # and change it?
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>
`-_-'
 'U`  "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"