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From: lunnon@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 pinhead, FATSPEED
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.093657.22967@qut.edu.au>
Date: 24 Jan 91 14:36:57 GMT
References: <14597@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Jan18.212946.24607@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <1991Jan22.160120.16423@cbnewsl.att.com> <1991Jan23.135900.16567@d.cs.okstate.edu>
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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.


If you refer to the makefast utility ??? then rename it makefast.ttp and
give it a list of files to makefast. This clumsy utility will then do it
for you.


> 
> cummins@d.cs.okstate.edu

	BOB
	R.Lunnon@qut.edu.au