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From: schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with Ares
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Date: 1 Jan 90 01:38:32 GMT
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> 
> Ares is not designed to make arbitrary programs resident.  It only works
> for "pure" programs--programs that don't modify global or static data.
> If you make a program resident that does modify its data segment, you
> will get complaints about checksum errors and you are risking crashing
> your machine.  
> 

Ooops... naturally!  I was thrown off because I didn't have these problems
with rez... but then, it was written by the Manx guy himself.  I'll use my
Manx programs with rez instead of Ares.  Thanks.
-Mike