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From: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Fix for ETERNAL to work on Mega STs
Message-ID: <5389@cup.portal.com>
Date: 13 May 88 12:44:21 GMT
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In message: <8805101853.AA24225@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 
	VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET writes:
>I recently posted an enquiry to this newsgroup concerning my problems running
>Turtle and TurboDOS om my Mega ST 4. As an aside, I mentioned that I was able
>to fix ETERNAL to run with 4 MB.
	[...]
>On a Mega ST, the attempt to determine if ETERNAL is resident results in --
>you guessed it -- a bus error. What I've done is to check if _phystop is
>exactly 4 MB -- ETERNAL can't be installed then, right ?   This makes my
>version of ETERNAL work with the old STs and with a Mega 4. I'm not sure what
>to do about a Mega 2. Checking for exactly 2 MB won't do: suppose you have
>a resident utility using up exactly 2 MB on a Mega 4. What should ETERNAL do
>in that case ?
	[...]

I am running ETERNAL right now (and have been running it for > 3 months)
on a MEGA ST2 with no problems. I don't think you need to worry about
"fixing" ETERNAL on the Mega 2.

					R. Tim Coslet

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