XBR4D76H@DDATHD21.BITNET (07/27/87)
The HDB printer problem (wrong initialization of the printer strobe line) has been fixed in version 2.4. GEMBOOT V1.11 has some new options and improvements - free cache space for new folders can be reserved with variable FOLDERRES - "ENVBUFSIZE=0" disables the DESKTOP environment buffer option and leads to a normal startup of DESKTOP (useful with MSH) - bug in GEMFRL.TOS fixed There is still the outstanding problem with the two incompatible environment string formats used by GEMBOOT (a) and MSH (b). a) <variable>=<value>\0....<variable>=<value>\0\0 b) <variable>=\0<value>\0....<variable>=\0<value>\0\0 The only definition I found was in the GEMDOS Reference Manual: > 0x4D Pexec - Load/Execute Process > ... > "string1\0" > "string2\0" > ... etc ... > "stringN\0" > "\0" > The environment string is any number of null-terminated strings, with > an empty string (a single null) at the end. > ... The compatibility problem arises from the lack of preciseness in the definition of "stringN". Please, would someone at ATARI (Allan?) fling a coin and make a decision which one (a,b or whatever) is the standard ST environment string format!!! Meanwhile MSH user may disable the GEMBOOT option (DESKTOP env. buffer) by "ENVBUFSIZE=0". Konrad A. Hahn BITNET: XBR4D76H@DDATHD21