Re: A86: Edit lock
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Re: A86: Edit lock
On the computer, there is a protection option for programs. What I believe
this does is it changes the program type from $12 to maybe $32 (I haven't
checked on the 86) and then it disappears from the edit menu. You can also
edit protect a program with $FF but then it is somewhat permanent.
-----Original Message-----
From: Klukan <renegade@bmt.net>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: A86: Edit lock
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|TGaArdvark@aol.com wrote:
|
|> > an edit locked program (as far as i know) has a null (00h) as it's
|> last
|> > character. can someone verify this?
|>
|> No, not basic anyway (I think it's a different type of variable for
|> asmcomped asm). For basic, it's a $FF anywhere in an un-
|> executed portion of the program that has no gotos that go
|> across it (Lbl searches crash on $FF's too).
|
|As far as I know, ASM programs cannot be edit-locked. For BASIC, it is
|a $FF character that causes the program to become edit-locked. I think
|that it must come at the end of the program, but I am not sure about
|that. ASM programs do not really need to be edit-locked, since once
|they are compiled, there is no way to edit them. That is unless you
|decompile it, which would generate code that is uncommented and is full
|of pointers and such. Anyway, there are programs that can un-edit-lock
|programs, so the feature is pretty much useless anyway.
|
|-Jeremy
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