Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Will somebody fix Delay(0), please?
Message-ID: <3741@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 14:17:20 GMT
References: <409@ritcv.UUCP> <2193@antique.UUCP> <2093@munnari.oz> <2347@louie.udel.EDU> <5877@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <5877@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	Unfortunately, Delay() is part of the DOS domain, and DOS is immune
>to the SetFunction() call, since DOS breaks the rules for library vectors.

Two things:

1) as I've mentioned before, the bug is probably in the timer.device...
   Delay just makes a timer request and waits on it...nothing fancy at all.

2) As Dr. King pointed out to me, DOS follows the rules for library
   vectors...the only specification of what a vector contains is that
   it occupy 6 bytes.  I want to change this in 2 ways...
   make DOS like the others, and add a SetFunction2 call that plays
   with all 6 bytes.

>So patching Delay() would be non-trivial.

its still non-trivial; but DOS isn't where to look.
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