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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: patches to TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <5440146@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 91 20:46:05 GMT
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csbrod@informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod (turo)) writes:

> Please don't talk of 'poolfix 4'. Its correct name is 'PFIX_CB.PRG'
> due to an arrangement with Allan Pratt, the original author.
> 
> To be fair, Poolfix3 followed the XBRA standard, yet only half-heartedly.
> I improved on that, and the result is that you can put it anywhere in
> your AUTO folder you like.

In a recent issue of Current Notes (I think it was November 1990), there 
was a comment that PFIX_CB.PRG is self-defeating, since it allows other 
autoprograms to run (and therefore allocate memory) before the memory 
pool bug fix is patched in. This sounds plausible to me but I am not familiar
with the details of the bug and the what the poolfix program(s) do. I'd like to
hear comments from Claus Brod and Allan Pratt about this.

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