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Re: [MiNT] ()

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:43:00 +0100, Jörg_Westheide wrote:

J>PS>Problem is the DTCOOKIE is a piece of hack and it´s a miracle it does
J>PS>work at all on all TOS versions. It may not work on MiNT and thus it
J>PS>would be best if MiNT provided these cookies itself.
J>The documentation states that DTCOOKIE works with MiNT if you start it after
J>MiNT

Well, DTCOOKIE does work for current version of MiNT but it might break
in future versions of MiNT. The way the DTCOOKIE works (it disassembles
the GEMDOS and searches for a certain instruction) can´t guarantee
anything on future TOS/MiNT versions. For MiNT its very easy to provide
these cookies so why not do it the easier way?

It might also be added to the new TOS Milan developers work on.

Petr
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