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Subject: Re: Re: Pexec
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 02:02:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 30 02:02:03 1987
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Date: 29 January 87 22:58-PST
From: KJBSF@SLACVM
To: INFO-ATARI16@SCORE
Subject: Re: Re: Pexec

Date: 29 January 1987, 22:56:52 PST
From: Kevin J. Burnett          x3330                <KJBSF@SLACVM>
To:   <INFO-ATARI16@SCORE.STANFORD>
Subject: Re: Re: Pexec
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Alan Pratt writes:
>I don't get it.  "address"?  OS calls on the ST don't have addresses.
>Where's your documentation?  If you don't have any, why not?
>
>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 think this is ridiculous.  It's insulting.  Who are you to presume
that just because someone asks a rather basic question, he is instantly
a 'software pirate'?  I always cringe when I see comments like the ones
above, as they go a long way to destroying the generall feeling of good
will I have seen on this mailing list.

Kevin J. Burnett
KJBSF%SLACVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Santa Clara University '88