Re: A89: Doors OS v0.8 questions

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Subject: Re: A89: Doors OS v0.8 questions
From: Xavier VASSOR - The Doors Team <doors@altern.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:03:28 +0100
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>> >But haven't you two decided on a "common file format"?  If so, then
>what
>> >will be the differences between the two "shells"?
>> 
>>  The differences will be the extra features we will include in our
>shells.
>> In Doors OS for example we implemented the anti crash protection.
>>  We will add other features in next versions.
>
>  If i understand well, the anti-crash system (modifying exception
>vectors?)
>should have nothing to do with the file system (BSS+compression...).
>So how
>shall this affect the file format?
 In fact Anti-crash system affects only a few the file format. there is
just an offset to the _exit code, called when a crash occurs so that (for
example) the program can free its memory before exiting

>> >> >> We included a 'moremem' program: it makes you have 64Kb
>Archive memory
>> >> more !!
>
>  How does this work? I mean not only safe sex is the trend nowadays. ;)
 It just initializes an unused 64Kb Archive sector so the calculator can
use it.
 


Xavier VASSOR
---The Doors Team
E-mail:xvassor@mail.dotcom.fr
Doors Homepage: http://doorshome.home.ml.org
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A89: Doors OS v0.8 questions

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