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   Martin Str|mberg to James Harris   
   Re: Look back to "just for the H@ck"   
   20 Jul 17 13:43:47   
   
   From: ams@nospicedham.ludd.luth.se   
      
   James Harris  wrote:   
   > On 20/07/2017 13:59, Martin Str|mberg wrote:   
   > > James Harris  wrote:   
      
   > >> If I had a go at it I'd be itching to add some of my own. Things like   
   > >   
   > >> * A subsequent run from the start must also work.   
   > >   
   > > What does this mean?   
      
   > It's just a preference that any SMC recognises it's already been M'd (!)   
   > and doesn't try to modify itself again if reinvoked.   
      
   I see (I think). However in my mind when running this base64 decoding   
   .COM program, a reinvokation is me typing hello_c.com again on the DOS   
   command line. And as the program is freshly loaded from disk it can't   
   have been modified (by itself).   
      
      
   --   
   MartinS   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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