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- How often have you inadvertently struck a key while Digital Research's
- LINK was linking a file? If you've ever done it (especially where you
- had to type a long command line or the linking took a while) you know
- how frustrating it is when LINK aborts. It is a mystery to me why DRI
- would allow LINK to abort on ANY keyboard entry. Fortunately, the
- changes to prevent that are trivial. Simply use your favorite debugger,
- load LINK.COM and change location 368B from 0E to AF and 368C from 0B to C9.
- This causes the console status routine to always return "console not ready."
-
- NOTE: platch is valid for LINK ver 1.31 only. The code to be changed is
- from 0E 0B C3 05 00 (MVI C,0B ! JMP BDOS)
- to AF C9 .. .. .. (XRA A ! RET)
- and can be found using DDTF or DU.
-