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From: dale@amiga.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Surprising Guru Med.
Message-ID: <1595@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Nov-86 15:56:13 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  2 15:56:13 1986
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In article <391@ethz.UUCP> claudio@ethz.UUCP (Claudio Nieder) writes:
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>Last night I got (once again) a guru meditation:
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>		84000009.48454C50
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>I noticed the strange address, and tried to translate it to ASCII:
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>                         48454C50
>			 H E L P

You can sometimes translate the guru meditation number '84000009' into
text by looking it up in the exec/alerts.h file
In this case Intuition noticed something wrong and decided it was better
to stop before any more harm was done.
The 'HELP' message is a catch word for exec. When exec finds out it cannot
put up an alert with the system in it's current state, it puts "HELP" in
location 0, It then resets and starts to bring the system back up. While
bringing the system back up it checks for 'HELP' in 0, if it is there
it goes directly to putting up the deadend alert message that it couldn't
get out before reseting the system.
Dale