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Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part V (last)
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Date: 1 Apr 91 12:53:12 GMT
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In article <20222@cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell
Jesup) says:

>        Except the trick is that if dos.library is opened successfully,
>the call never returns.  The docs don't actually say it returns (though I
>can see how you'd assume that).

You're thinking of the "bootstrap" code involved in autobooting. The
standard bootblock code certainly does return. If it didn't various
resources would not be deallocated by strap.

-- Dan Babcock