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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: idle rambling
Message-ID: <4c88ac53.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 90 19:55:00 GMT
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In article <25952@cs.yale.edu> fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) writes:
>In article <6848.26dd860f@uwovax.uwo.ca> 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) writes:
>>The other problem is that no one can be sure that the AUTO folder patch
>>is available on every machine; hence, the constant re-invention of the
>>wheel.
>But that's what the cookie jar is for.  A program that wants to patch
>the jump table can test to see if the patch is there already.  If not,
>it can install it itself or else install its own trap handler the old
>way.

And I suppose one must be a registered developer to learn how to use the
cookie jar?  Pfagh.

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