Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 pinhead, FATSPEED Message-ID: <28306@cs.yale.edu> Date: 23 Jan 91 18:08:40 GMT References: <1991Jan18.212946.24607@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <1991Jan22.160120.16423@cbnewsl.att.com> <1991Jan23.135900.16567@d.cs.okstate.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: ginkgo.theory.cs.yale.edu Originator: fischer@ginkgo.CS.Yale.Edu In article <1991Jan23.135900.16567@d.cs.okstate.edu> cummins@d.cs.okstate.edu (John Cummins) writes: >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 I wrote one, too, with a command line interface. I should just post it and save you the bother. -- ================================================== | Michael Fischer | ==================================================