chipw@pro-newfrontier.UUCP (Chip Welch) (07/28/88)
Here are a couple of notes that have been posted on GEnie:
Category 1, Topic 23
Message 6 Tue Jul 26, 1988
AIIDTS [ Matt ] at 00:45 EDT
Here's a little correction to the System Disk 3.2 release notes:
The next-to-last paragraph at the bottom of page 2 says that "in order
to be more descriptive, GET_DIR_ENTRY now returns End-of-file errors
($4C) instead of End-of-Directory ($61)."
That sounds backwards, and it is. GDE will return $61 End of Directory,
not $4C End of File. So don't rewrite your programs' error-checking
routines based on that paragraph.
Matt Deatherage
Apple II Developer Technical Support
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Category 1, Topic 40
Message 8 Tue Jul 26, 1988
AIIDTS [ Matt ] at 00:38 EDT
Re: "Packed Stuff" filetypes
We're about to announce a kind of "filetype amnesty" for all those
programs which simply kind of 'took' their own filetypes from what they
thought was available, generally making a mess of the poor user's disks.
What we're going to do is let anyone who's written a program that creates
telecom library files (examples: ALU, BLU, DDD, ARC, etc.) send us a copy
of their program, PREFERABLY along with the packing algorithm and/or the
format of the data file created. When we receive that (and recognize
that the program is written and not just someone's proposal), we will
assign them an auxtype in filetype $E0, which is "Telecom Library File."
Floyd Zink has already received an assignment for the next version of BLU,
and Don Elton's old ALU program has auxtype $0000. The rest will be
assigned by us.
When the tech note monkey is off my back, I'll make up an official type
announcement to be spread across the nation's modemways.
Matt Deatherage
Apple II Developer Tech Support
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