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From: john@viper.Lynx.MN.ORG (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ..._shell_p
Message-ID: <1020@viper.Lynx.MN.ORG>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 15:17:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 15:17:10 1987
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In article <8705182113.AA17190@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET writes:
 >As I just noticed there IS a pointer reserved for the environment string
 >the_env ($4BC). What I'll do right now is patch my copy of GEMBOOT and
 >SETPATH to use this location and we can bury this discussion once and for all!
 >
 >                            Simon Poole
 >                            K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET

  I wouldn't do that Simon...  The data at $4bc is suppost to be the
default environment string itself, not a pointer.  (At least acording 
to a quick glance I just took in Abacus "Internals"...)

  Then again...  Hold the phone.  I just glanced at that location and
discovered that the first two bytes are counting..  at approx 200hz...

  < ??Anybody know what's going on here?? >

  Ah, got it...  The address given in the Abacus book is wrong..!
$4BC IS counting at 200hz..  The 200hz clock is a long starting at 
$4ba.  So, it looks like the_env is really at $4BE... not $4bc..

  I still don't think it's a pointer...

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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