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From: kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Jim Goodnow's REZ
Message-ID: <26894@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 7 Apr 88 01:19:36 GMT
References: <8149@oberon.USC.EDU>
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In article <8149@oberon.USC.EDU>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
> Well, it looks like Jim Goodnow II did it again.  Last night I downloaded REZ 
> beta V0.3 and I now have a resident compiler, assembler and linker.
> 
> Kudos to Jim again.  Even if you don't like debuggers :-), you should get this 
> one. And it is free!

Yep ... REZ is pretty darn nice!  Jim did a presentation of how it works at
a recent BADGE meeting ... it does some, uh, "interesting" things behind
AmigaDOS's back ... things best not discussed if children are present :-).

I've only found a couple of real problems with it, and have reported them to
Jim:

  1 - If you "rez" Execute, it kills the Dillon/Drew shell (v2.07m).  Doesn't
      hang or anything nasty ... just causes "shell" to terminate.  May
      cause other problems, though ... I didn't leave it "rez'd".

  2 - Shell itself doesn't work properly if *it* is rez'd.  No big deal ... I
      was just trying to see what I could and couldn't rez.

  3 - If you rez v3.1 of NewZAP, the S/E/F/B gadgets in the bottom center of
      it's window "break up" (get trashed).

All in all, a job well done ... thanks, Jim!


BTW, I sent "rez" to the moderators at purdue about a month or so ago, along
with "amicron" (v2.4), all of the ARP v1.1 developer stuff, "viewboot"
(v1.01) boot-block viewer and virus checker, and a few other things.

/kim


P.S.  I suppose this means that we need a "resident" standard now.  Lesee,
      there's Jim's "REZ", ARP's "resident", Bill Hawes' "resi", and the
      "Resident" command from CBM that's supposed to be part of 1.3.  Oh yes,
      and the *old* resident command from 1.2 Beta/Gamma ... :-) :-)


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