Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org (02/22/91)
vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes: > In article <28841@cs.yale.edu> fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) > writes: > >In article <208348@fiction> Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org writes: > >>Some strange things about the <Esc> function in the DeskTop... > >>1) hdv_bpb and hdv_rw are patched... > >You have uncovered the approved way of forcing Gemdos to recognize a > >media change... > I think there was a much simpler way distributed with TOS 1.4. I don't have > it with me now so I can't say for sure. Allan, can you cover this? The piece of code I referred to was a part of TOS 1.4. The more I think about it, the less I like it: Ok, it prevents you from the media change problem when changing disks on the DeskTop, but if you are in an applica- tion, you'll still have the problem. So I think the DeskTop is really the wrong place for trying to fix the problem. Daniel