Re: [MiNT] 1.15.2 flag settings

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Frank Naumann wrote:

> > This has probably already come up. I was looking at flag settings in 
> > my auto folder apps and 
> > noticed that using "fileinfo, V1.03" that the flags in 
> > MiNT V1.15.2 cannot be set. Is this a "feature" 
> 
> The kernel is build with the new binutils that create a different program
> format. You need the mintbin package that contain updated tools to
> manipulate the flags (and some other things).

Was this change necessary?  

The program header flags is a well-documented method created by Atari
and people were just barely starting to use the flags correctly, since
about 6 months.  

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