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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Starting up a process without a LoadSeg?
Summary: Look at robotroff/_main.c on FF #59
Keywords: detaching a program so it won't get unloaded
Message-ID: <111@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 06:38:31 GMT
References: <14338@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <15103@gryphon.COM> keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) writes:
>And BTW, did anyone find any problems with Leo's method of starting
>up a process without doing a LoadSeg?

Leo Schwab replies:
>     And BTW, it's Brian Witt's method; I just wrote the example.

In article <14338@louie.udel.EDU> AXDRW%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Don R. Withey) writes:
>Was Leo's code posted on comp.sys.amiga or comp.sys.amiga.tech?  If it was I
>must have missed it.  I would be very happy if someone could point me to where
>I could get my hands on it to take a look. >axdrw@alaska.bitnet (Don R. Withey)

It's included in the _main.c routine that Leo hacked up to get robotroff to
work.  It can be found on Fred Fish disk number 59.

Given that Leo wanted robotroff's function to be a surprise, I can understand
why there are no comments in this code.  But now that this section of a cute
hack is becoming useful, I would appreciate it if Leo would repost the code,
WITH COMMENTS, so that we can learn from this genius's thought processes.
I've read the code, and the more I think I understand it the more I'm sure
that I'm missing something important.  Honest.

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