Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!aftermath!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Re: gulam on TOS1.4
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.222739.18957@water.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: gulam TOS1.4 Rainbow-TOS
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <667@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> <242@image.UUCP> <687@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 90 22:27:39 GMT
Lines: 13

In article <687@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl
	(W.C. Bulte) writes:

>I recently received information that the incompatibility of Gulam with TOS1.4
>is limited to the 'mem' command. It seems that Gulam uses a undocumented TOS
>routine or variable and apparently this has changed with TOS1.4.

Others have reported this too.  Eric R. Smith, (ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca),
has pointed out that a simple C program may be aliased to mem, so that
the command "mem" does not access the Gulam function, but invokes the
C program that tells you the largest chunk of memory you have available
for use.