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From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The mysteries of Pexec - Help
Message-ID: <512@atari.UUcp>
Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 12:33:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 12 12:33:14 1987
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in article <561@eneevax.UUCP>, iarocci@eneevax.UUCP (Bill Dorsey) says:
> 
> Someone wanted to know if gemdos maintains a pointer to the currently exec-
> uting process' basepage; well, it turns out it does.  The location is $602C.
> Hope this helps.

Nope, it doesn't help.  If you use this location, your software is
*gaurenteed* to break in a new release of the operating system.  The
magic location may not, in fact, even work as Bill claims it does.

There *are* several revisions of the TOS ROMs in existence....

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-Landon Dyer, Atari Corp.		        {sun,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer

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