Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!osf!dbrooks
From: dbrooks@osf.OSF.ORG (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: AUTO folder
Message-ID: <1019@osf.OSF.ORG>
Date: 27 May 89 16:55:06 GMT
References: <8905231618.AA24695@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <957@osf.OSF.ORG> <210@cmpfen.UUCP>
Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
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In article <210@cmpfen.UUCP> bob@cmpfen.UUCP (Bob Breum) writes:
:In article <957@osf.OSF.ORG> dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
:>
:>When I tried using a startup program, (don't remember if it was this
:>one) I had the following problem.  The STARTUP program loads itself in
:>the bottom of user memory.  Then it loads other resident programs
:>above itself.  Then it terminates, leaving a hole where it used to be,
:>and GEMDOS can't use that hole.
:
:Wrong.
:
:The version of STARTUP.PRG which I have used for quite a long time now
:actually consists of two parts:  STARTUP.PRG and STARTUP.TOS.  (etc)
[...]
:Murray put a lot of work into this program.  Don't trash it when you don't
:know what you are talking about.

OK, so I'm not up to date.  Not a reason to flame me, though; there
*was* a STARTUP.PRG that left a memory hole, and please note my
parenthetical phrase.

I'm glad the problem has been addressed.
-- 
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