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From: zu@ethz.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
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Subject: Re: PROCOMM 2.4.2 file PROCOMM.PRM - Wh
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 01:49:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: bernina.193
Posted: Fri Sep  4 01:49:50 1987
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References: <448@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <174200065@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: zu@bernina.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, CS Department, Switzerland
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>>/* ---------- "PROCOMM 2.4.2 file PROCOMM.PRM - Wh" ---------- */
>>This file is updated (at least the date and time are changed), even if I
>>haven't changed any parameter settings.
>
>    i've heard that after N (256?) invocations, procomm automatically
>stops displaying the ALT-I screen at start-up.  thus, there must be an
>invocation-counter somewhere; procomm.prm is as good a place as any.

You're absolutely right. Procomm maintains a 16-bit integer counter of its
invocations in procomm.prm at byte 0x0e and 0x0f (this is bytes number 15 and
16 because computers start counting with 0).
If this counter reaches 20 (I don't know if decimal or hexadecimal), the
ALT-I page isn't displayed anymore during startup.

Perhaps you set procomm.prm to read-only, so procomm won't be able to
touch it and your backup would work the way it should :-)


		...urs

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