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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMDOS source, (Was Re: Changing  to / in TOS)
Message-ID: <1416@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 23:33:16 GMT
References: <1988Feb10.091947.13443@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <979@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin
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In article <979@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>You can't get it (legally) in North America.
>
>I urge you not to try, because it will create such chaos.  Atari cannot
>be expected to support an OS if everybody with a C compiler can create
>his own version.  Please be patient: I'm not kidding when I say the
>new GEMDOS will be out soon.  (By "soon" I don't mean "next week."
>I mean "sooner than you could get the source, figure it out, make any
>useful changes, and debug them to the point that you would trust your
>hard disk's file structure to it.")

Thats awfully true. I just recovered my harddisk from the backup...

I found out what this book is, and what it cannot give you: it is not
the compileble source of gemdos/bios/xbios.

It just gives you a closeup to the system. It gives a lot of hints to
*beware* sections and lists a couple of serious bugs.


I just hope there ist somebody with a C-Compiler *and* the complete
source (no ampersands missing...) who will recompile it and give us an
update. 

hase
-- 
Hartmut Semken, Berlin (West) (*east of West-Germany :-)
hase@netmbx.UUCP
answer: 42 question: under development. Stay tuned.