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- SD-4.3 - 06 feb 1982
- R.B. Strand
-
- SD-4.x uses the questionable method of modifying the trap table
- in BDOS to disable the normal BDOS error messages. This allows
- the identification of invalid drives and bad disks by SD.
- However, earlier versions did this modifying without testing
- whether or not the vector pointer at BASE+5 was virgin, or had
- been changed by DDT, UNSPOOL or the like. This created great
- confusion (and system crashes). To alleviate the problem, SD now
- checks whether the pointer is valid (L-reg = 6) before swapping
- the BDOS trap vectors, and also only swaps them when the all-disk
- search option is requested ($D).
-
- Additional changes include the addition of dim (vs. reverse)
- characters for the ADM-31 and similar CRTs. These are merely
- substituted for the reverse characters. Also, when using RMAC,
- there is no requirement for external defs of BASE, etc. Instead,
- merely add an ASEG statement and compile as if with MAC. MAC
- users should ignore the "B" error flag for this statement.
- Flipping on the RMAC flag now still requires linking the
- externals.
-