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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: DME1.20
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Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 02:08:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  4 02:08:39 1987
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>Perhaps I'm dim, but could you be more explicit about the bug in DME?
>Does DME eat cycles only while you hold down both buttons, or does
>holding down both buttons trigger something that eats cycles from then on?
>Since you say this isn't really a bug, the first (not very serious) case
>sounds likely, but I'd like to be sure.

	Fixed in V1.22, which I put on the net a couple of days ago. 

>ALSO:  A question.

	(The question was on the Amiga's DISK format)

	The SYNC byte refers to a RAW MFM bit sequence which is illegal as
far as sticking to the MFM conventions.  Thus, it never occurs in the data
portion of the sector.

	As far as I know, nobody currently uses the 16 byte label area for
each sector (i.e. a sector actually has 528 bytes of OS usable data).  This
corrosponds to about 28Kbytes on a disk.

				-Matt