Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!lll-winken!uunet!brunix!rjd From: rjd@brunix (Rob Demillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Obliterating your boot sector, Part I Message-ID: <3179@brunix.UUCP> Date: 1 Apr 89 23:09:37 GMT References: <2938@brunix.UUCP> <1418@atari.UUCP> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rjd@zaphod.UUCP (Rob Demillo) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 27 In article <1418@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes: >In article <2938@brunix.UUCP> rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) writes: >|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 > Atari R&D Software Engine | GEMDOS LIVES! ...or is that Frodo? > {portal,ames,imagen}!atari!kbad | I can never remember these things... Yeah, that's what I thought to. But when I pull out the assembler routine, the program functions fine. When I put it back in: blammo! (Don't worry, this time I had my ass covered because I was expecting it.) I am now beginning to expect the Laser C shell. I wonder if it is reacting badly with my TRAP #2 for some reason. Any comments? - Rob DeMillo | UUCP: ...ima!brunix!rjd Brown University | BITnet: DEMILLO%BRNPSG.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU Planetary Science Group | Reality: 401-863-3769 "I say you *are* the Messiah, Lord! And I ought to know, I've followed a few!"