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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian F. Reschke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Force Desktop Res Change?
Message-ID: <91133.112834ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Date: 13 May 91 09:54:22 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.014020.3838@lonex.radc.af.mil>
 <3094.05.91@drdhh.hanse.de> <1991May12.234615.15781@wam.umd.edu>
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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany

In article <1991May12.234615.15781@wam.umd.edu>, cmedley@wam.umd.edu (Charles
Henry Medley) says:
>Is Punt_aes called by TOS when the actual change from medium to low resolution
>is done?  I am curious because it could help me in solving my problem with
>handling vectors during the change in resolution from "Set Preferences" and
>I've always wondered why punt_aes was still included in the ROM versions of
>TOS.  Atari ST Internals (Abacus) never really mentioned any good uses for
>punt_aes.

This is because there IS no use for Puntaes(). All it does is a warm boot
without GEM IF AND ONLY IF the OS is in RAM.

By the way: there is no legal method for accessories to change vectors.
Thins like that belong into TSRs in the auto folder.

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