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From: K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET
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Subject: Re: ......_shell_p...... (Was I wrong?)
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Date: Sat, 16-May-87 13:42:03 EDT
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OK, I admit I was probaly wrong, I did some more research into how GEMBOOT
uses _shell_p: it seems that the only reason Konrad Hahn uses it, is so
that SETPATH can be used to change the path, the AES actually uses
$A0A6 to save the pointer to the enviroment string (have a look
at the code pointed to by exec_os ($4FE). One doesn't actually need _shell_p
to set the path at boot-time, so I suppose Konrad could make a version without
using this semi-documented location (maybe one day Atari will decide on
for what it actually is :-)).

                            Simon Poole
                            K538915@CZHRZof yto iups