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- From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Untouched memory? (Prodos)
- Message-ID: <mattd-080992120119@city-lights.apple.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:00:25 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.200427.13292@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Organization: Developer Technical Support, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <1992Sep4.200427.13292@news.Hawaii.Edu>,
- gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu) wrote:
- >
- >
- > Are there any parts of memory that that more or less goes
- > untouched by ProDOS8 (on a //e) AND isn't wiped out by a Ctrl-OA-Reset?
- >
- > What I want to do is poke the date into memory
-
- Check the ProDOS 8 Technical Reference Manual. There's a two-byte location
- for the date and one for the time in a packed format. If you use this
- format and put the date in the right place, ProDOS 8 will automatically
- use it to date-stamp your files.
-
- There is no place that's guaranteed not to be wiped out by Control-OA-
- Reset. Sorry.
-
- > Galen Komatsu ! Apple//e ! XTC
- > gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu ! Sega MegaDrive ! Sakai Noriko
- > ar592@cleveland.freenet.edu ! Atari 7800 ! Checkers
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