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From: cummins@d.cs.okstate.edu (John Cummins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 pinhead, FATSPEED
Summary: PINHEAD not needed w TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.135900.16567@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 13:59:00 GMT
References: <14597@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Jan18.212946.24607@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <1991Jan22.160120.16423@cbnewsl.att.com>
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
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The stuff in a previous host about process headers sounded right (I'm not
a software person...) but

Pinhead is not needed with TOS 1.4, (It will work however) as TOS 1.5 uses
a 'Fastload' bit in the directory to indicate whether a program needs
to have memory cleared before it loads.  A rather clumsy utility was 
available to set this bit (for faster loading... slow loading is the default!
Argh!!!) but I despise clumsy utilities and am waiting for a utility
that will allow selection of multiple files at a time to have the "fast bit"
set.

cummins@d.cs.okstate.edu