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From: MARKV@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (MARK GOODERUM - UNIV. OF KANSAS ACS - MARKV@UKANVAX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ROM-Wack
Message-ID: <21930@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 90 19:50:19 GMT
References: <71QR025m81NF01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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> While trying to figure out why my printer driver wasn't working, I
> had the "oppertunity" to use ROM-Wack. I have a few questions on
> using it:
> 
>  - I was under the impression that you could get into ROM-Wack
>    automatically, when you had a GURU. 

Easy.  Instead of pressing "left mouse button to contine", try pressing 
the right one, and ROM-Wack will come up on the serial port.

>  - When entering ROM-Wack by hitting DEL at GURU time, location zero
>    (0x00000000) contains the text "HELP". Where did this come from?

I hadn't heard of this one...
 
>  - Does ROM-Wack have a disassembler?

Don't think so, Wack does (I believe.)
 
>  - I got the impression that there was a full blown Wack avaliable.
>    Where can I get it?

I think it can be ordered from CATS like other various materials.

>    brings up the GURU alert. Then either the "left button" (and right
>    button also, whats the difference?)...

This was just mentioned, left to reboot, right to ROM-Wack.

> I am glad that ROM-Wack is avaliable, as I was able (through the Stack
> Traceback) to determine where my program was going nuts. However, the
> little doc I have on it, The "RKM: Libraries And Devices" manual isn't
> really enough. Is there any other doc avaliable?

Don't know.  Another good tool for this kind of debugging is debug.lib which
is at least documented in the new Includes and Autodocs (I got a copy off
the actual file off my original Textcraft disk of all places along with
old Amiga classics like Download, etc...
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