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- From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: So many cookies
- Date: Sat, 21 May 94 9:23:23 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <199405201944.PAA22036@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>; from "C.P.Briscoe-Smith" at May 17, 94 12:26 pm
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- >
- > I was looking at mint.doc recently -- the one that came with MiNT v0.96,
- > though, but it should still apply -- and it says that programs should
- > detect the presence of MiNT by looking in the cookie jar. It also says
- > that an alternative method would be to make a Syield() (?) call, and
- > see if it returns an error, but that this was not recommended because
- > a non-MiNT system may use that function code for something else.
- >
-
- I would say that this is out-dated (from the time when MiNT wasn't the
- official Atari OS). Nowadays you should *really* do the call and then check
- for EINVFN as return value. This way programs will work with compatible
- operating systems, too.
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- Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-48161 Muenster
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