FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET.UUCP (01/29/87)
Following an inquiry about pexec, Allan Pratt said: >Forgive my presumption, but it seems possible that you have an illegal >copy of Atari's or somebody else's compiler without the documentation. >There is a mistake in Atari's (and therefore some other people's) >documentation of the Pexec call (using function code 4), but I'm not >about to tell you what it is. Please get legitimate. It's not even >that expensive for some of the compilers out there. I have another reason to be missing the corrected documentation etc: I've had very little success downloading the updates from Compuserve. I've registered as a developer and keep an eye on DL7 and DL8 of ATARIDEV SIG, but after wasting a lot of time (and $$$) I've discovered that my chances of downloading files bigger than 30-40K are much less than 50%. I've tried various xmodem implementations. I even tried capturing the hex files as text but generally several lines are trashed, apparently within CIS's net. When I finally asked CIS what gives, they said basically that any method other than CIS B protocol is not guaranteed to work on their networks, sorry. Anyone know of a communications package (preferably public domain) that has CIS B protocol? It would be nice if we could get disk updates from Atari now and then as happened once last summer. I suspect paying $20-40 for a new disk set wouldn't cost much more (may be even cheaper) than downloading monster files like RCS 2.0 from CIS. Can we get a new disk set incorporating all the various fixes, patches, and so on? I'll send you my originals if you want them, Atari.