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From: neil@amiga.UUCP (Neil Katin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Look what I found!
Message-ID: <851@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 16:33:24 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 16:33:24 1986
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In article <759@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab) writes:
>	Guess what I stumbled onto!
>
>	I was compiling my project, and had gotten to the linking stage,
>and had accidentally mistyped one of the parameters to Deep Thought (read
>Alink).  Naturally, it screamed at me for being a twat, and showed me a
>correct argument list.  Even though I knew what I did wrong, I looked
>at the diagnostic anyway, and noticed an argument I'd never seen before.
>
>	It was called "faster".
>
> <text deleted...>
>
>	Note: this pertains to Alink version 3.20.
>	Another note: "faster" must be supplied in the command line; it
>can't be in a WITH file, or Alink will complain.
>
>	Anyway, I thought you might be interested in this one.....
>
>					Leo L. Schwab
>					dual!unicom!schwab
>					well!ewhac


Well, I went and looked at the source.  The "FASTER" argument was news
to us at C-A also.

It's hard to believe that you got all your memory back.  The only
think it does is stop keeping track of allocated memory, and no-op
out the memory free routine.  Are you SHURE that avail said all
your memory was returned?

	Neil Katin
	Commodore Amiga Inc.
	pyramid!amiga!neil