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From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RESIDENT
Message-ID: <285@l5comp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 18:24:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5comp.285
Posted: Fri Jun  5 18:24:35 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jun-87 03:48:12 EDT
References: <8706020852.AA18103@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
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Summary: CATS and goldfish, RESIDENT and MCC Shell, cli-resident request reviewed.

In article <8706020852.AA18103@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>WOAHH!!!!  Don't abuse my goldfish!!! :-) :-).
Yeah, between myself and CATS there are already enough wounded goldfish. (I
HAVE wondered about Andy's picking the term "goldfish" vis-a-vis "CATS", we
all know how cats like to abuse goldfish... ;) [I'm kidding Andy, please no
flames, just chuckles OK?]

>>Second, regallar (sic) Amiga owners don't
>>have the RESIDENT command.  Not legally, anyway.
>conscience.  BTW:  resident was initially released on a disk with no
>distribution restrictions printed on it, and it does not contain a 
>copyright notice.
I seem to have this note buried in my mind that we agreed NOT to re-distribute
items sent to us under the 1.2 beta test. Of course my memory could be playing
tricks with me...

And to throw more fuel on the "Big Bad MCC" fire, the MCC Shell has RESIDENT
and get this, UNRESIDENT(!) built in!!!

I've NEVER seen an UNRESIDENT anywhere else.

>This really skirts the issue, as the "RESIDENT" command needs the "cli-resident"
>file to be meaningful.  That is probably imbedded heavily with BCPL magic,
>not really possible to recreate without knowing what it does.
>(Scott, break out the MCC dissassembler...)
Aye aye Capt'n! ;-) You want a new cli-resident or just the "magic"? If it's
just the magic I think the trick is that the cli/shell/whatever just uses the
seglist hung off the nethandler entry in dosinfo(???) to find the segment list
for the program it wants and then does the same thing with it that it does with
LoadSeg's returned seglist. But I'll be happy to dig if the CATS don't want to
hop in and explain.

Scott Turner
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