Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Res Changing (really terminate handler)
Keywords: After A Crash?
Message-ID: <1246@electro.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 17:16:36 GMT
References: <3995@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> <1912@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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In article <1912@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
>> [Bulk of question deleted.]
>>So we put in a terminate handler at vector 0x102 [...]
>>Can we call the XBIOS safely from here?
>
>Yes.  I wrote an off-the-cuff article "all about terminate handlers" 
>on GEnie, then asked John Townsend to post it here.  I don't know if he
    ^^^^^
>has, but among other things, it says you can make BIOS and XBIOS calls
>but not GEMDOS calls.




could you perchance repost that article here. it would be nice to know a bit
more about the terminate handlers in the atari st, and i haven't yet seen
it here.

thanx, and merry xmas!

(hoping santa brings me a stacy) (the portable or a female version!)


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