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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: fastload (null filling the BBS)
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Date: 21 Mar 90 21:29:16 GMT
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In article <1190@dutrun.UUCP> hans@duttnph.UUCP (Hans Buurman) writes:
>I found a file called fastload.st on the ruu.nl server, which should
>make program startup faster. Instead of filling all remaining ram with
>zeroes, it only cleared the BBS section. Author was Leo de Wit, in 1988.
>As I seem to recall, there was some discussion whether this was allowed.
>Furthermore, the file only contained assembler source, and I find myself
>without a proper assembler. So there are two questions:

Get Pinhead, from the Codeheads. It's PD, based on Leo de Wit's code,
but a bit more user friendly. It's available on terminator in new/pinhed14.arc,
and you should be able to find it elsewhere.

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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan