[comp.sys.amiga] Using SetPatch to fix the trackdisk.device

jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (09/17/89)

In article <7929@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>>No, it doesn't.  That bug is a problem in the TD_RAWREAD code;
>>it will probably be addressed in a future SetPatch.
>
>	Yes, it can be done (barely) but isn't easy.

I've noticed some of the contortions that NoClick has to go through after it
makes a patched copy of the trackdisk.device in RAM.  Can you comment on
that code?  I get the impression that it is very easy to make it so that any
future task will use the patched device, but it is very difficult to make
all current tasks use the new code.  And that the real difficulty is in
making it work under ALL conditions.  Is this correct?
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