Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PCF554
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.034917.19034@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 03:49:17 GMT
References: <1990Dec16.234939.22473@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <1990Dec16.234939.22473@watmath.waterloo.edu> I wrote:
>I recently bought a PCF554 disk drive that is designed for 5.25
>floppy disks.  It did not come with any instructions.  Can you
>help me to get it going?  Is there some software needed?

Well, I have had a knowledgeable reply.
It seems that there is a program "PCF554.PRG" written, apparently,
by someone at Atari and distributed to developers.  Now, it seems
that this program will help me to make use of this disk drive in
a way that it becomes more useful than a door stop.

No here is my problem:  my contact, a highly honorable developer, is
uncertain about the legal status of the information (code?) sent to him
that allowed him to type in and assemble the program "PCF554.PRG".

Could the folks at Atari comment on this?
Is it legal for someone to sell or give away this code?

I have heard that there is a low-memory system variable that looks
like it might be the thing to change but it isn't.