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Subject: ignorance != piracy
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Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 17:57:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 28 17:57:00 1987
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Following an inquiry about pexec, Allan Pratt said:

>Forgive my presumption, but it seems possible that you have an illegal
>copy of Atari's or somebody else's compiler without the documentation.
>There is a mistake in Atari's (and therefore some other people's)
>documentation of the Pexec call (using function code 4), but I'm not
>about to tell you what it is.  Please get legitimate.  It's not even
>that expensive for some of the compilers out there.

I have another reason to be missing the corrected documentation etc:  I've
had very little success downloading the updates from Compuserve.  I've
registered as a developer and keep an eye on DL7 and DL8 of ATARIDEV SIG,
but after wasting a lot of time (and $$$) I've discovered that my chances
of downloading files bigger than 30-40K are much less than 50%.  I've
tried various xmodem implementations.  I even tried capturing the hex
files as text but generally several lines are trashed, apparently within
CIS's net.  When I finally asked CIS what gives, they said basically that
any method other than CIS B protocol is not guaranteed to work on their
networks, sorry.  Anyone know of a communications package (preferably
public domain) that has CIS B protocol?

It would be nice if we could get disk updates from Atari now and then as
happened once last summer.  I suspect paying $20-40 for a new disk set
wouldn't cost much more (may be even cheaper) than downloading monster
files like RCS 2.0 from CIS.  Can we get a new disk set incorporating
all the various fixes, patches, and so on?  I'll send you my originals
if you want them, Atari.