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|    Louis Ohland to All    |
|    Hidden Built-In Functions are Easter Egg    |
|    14 May 23 05:26:13    |
      From: ohland@charter.net              Late Saturday evening, I blundered into a thought.              For those of us frantically trying to unwrap the mysteries of planar       ADFs, there are functions NOT contained in the Pnnnn, Dnnnn, and Snnnn       ADFs, yet when you run System Programs, shucks, them there Built-In       Functions is thar! Yuck, yuck! Long pull on the jug o' Slivovice...               From a very crude probulation of SC.EXE from the [so boringly] common       Model 90/95 diags disk, I >think< the common functions are in SC.EXE,       and board-specific functions are in the planar ADFs.              I have seen the four [!] Diskette Drive Types and planar/system board       SCSI controllers. Possumbly more. It would be sensible to stuff common       interfaces into SC.EXE and minimize the size / complexification of the       system-specific ADFs.              My apologies for a lack of dis-assembly, but I'm not smart. Must have       been the mandatory pre-frontal lobotomy that comes with field grade...       Remember, "A lobotomy brings them home every time"...              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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