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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Obliterating your boot sector, Part I
Message-ID: <1418@atari.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 09:49:43 GMT
References: <2938@brunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <2938@brunix.UUCP> rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) writes:
|OK, here I am...peacefully working on a contract program. Suddenly,
|I decide that, for various reasons, it would be a useful thing to 
|be able to detect whether GDOS is installed on the user's machine.
|
[stuff about HD boot sector mysteriously disappearing after TRAP #2]
|
|My question is: was this a co-ink-ee-dink, or did the TRAP #2 put
|my Atari into the twilight zone? 

Coincidence?  Maybe.  But there is no way that a GDOS Trap #2 inquiry
could waste your hard disk's boot sector.  Got any other evil, insidious
memory resident tools lurking in your system?

-- 
 Ken Badertscher                 | #include <disclaimer>
 Atari R&D Software Engine       | GEMDOS LIVES! ...or is that Frodo?
 {portal,ames,imagen}!atari!kbad | I can never remember these things...