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Subject: Re: Obliterating your boot sector, Part I
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Date: 7 Apr 89 00:17:41 GMT
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From: omni!emh@stag.UUCP (Eric Hopper)

In article <3179@brunix.UUCP> rjd@brunix (Rob Demillo) writes:
>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 <disclaimer>
>> 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?

	I don't think so.  If you look at the Laser C demo programs,
they all use the trap #2 vector to check for GDOS.  It's in their
open_work() routines.  I don't think they would stick in demo programs
that they couldn't run from their shell.


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