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From: toebes@sas.UUCP (John Toebes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Resident Librarys Auto-open (was: Re: Font help needed)
Keywords: global
Message-ID: <555@sas.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 05:05:09 GMT
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In article <10433@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
>Doesn't AmigaDos support automatic opening of rom resident libraries?
No.
> Why don't Manx and Lattice use that?
Because it doesn't work.
>: Michael Gersten			 uunet.uu.net!denwa!stb!michael

Ok, here's the answer as I understand it from my experimentation when we
seriously considered putting it into Blink.  The libraries that appear
to be searched are BCPL libraries.  Even if that were not the case, the
loader will load a file which references a non-existant library WITHOUT
so much as a peep.  Also, the load file format doesn't allow any method of
supplying a version number.  (is that enough reasons yet?)

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