Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!cedman From: cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Does Everybody leave dos.library open? Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 23:24:55 GMT References: <14721@netcom.UUCP> <302@mtiame.oz> Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: non serviam Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: lynx.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: jep@mtiame.oz's message of 22 Oct 90 08:49:32 GMT In article <302@mtiame.oz> jep@mtiame.oz (Jesper Peterson) writes: In article cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes: >PS: I always opened and closed not only "dos.library" but even "exec.library". >(Yes, I am a neurotic :-). Considering exec.library "needs" to be open before you can open it I understand how you became neurotic. Really ? You don't mean that the call to OpenLibrary actually is at offset -552d from the base of exec.library and that it actually is in WOM ? Now, please don't offend me or the readers of this group by assuming that anyone does not know this. The practice I described above is a sign of chronic neat-ness , not of complete ignorance. Carl Edman PS: I had hoped that my reference to reading the source to exec.library would have spared me such answers :-). Theorectial Physicist,N.:A physicist whose | Send mail existence is postulated, to make the numbers | to balance but who is never actually observed | cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu in the laboratory. | edmanc@uciph0.ps.uci.edu