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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!psuvax1!psuvm!dxb132
  2. Organization: Penn State University
  3. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:28:04 EST
  4. From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
  5. Message-ID: <92324.182805DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
  6. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  7. Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
  8. References: <92323.003545BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
  9.  <1992Nov18.133139.21744@ifi.unizh.ch> <92323.182614BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
  10.  <1992Nov19.142226.27864@sophia.smith.edu> <92324.160932BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>
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  13. In article <92324.160932BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu>, Blaise Tarr
  14. <BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
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  16. >In article <1992Nov19.142226.27864@sophia.smith.edu>, (John Fieber) says:
  17. >>
  18. >>Sure, I can now use MEMF_PUBLIC when I allocate that memory but
  19. >>that still leaves about 99% of current programs that would fall
  20. >>flat on their face.
  21.  
  22. >Why?  Is the MEMF_PUBLIC flag new to 2.0?  (I don't have the 1.3 RKRMs with
  23. >me)
  24.  
  25. It's been around since 1.0, but older RKMs didn't really explain what it
  26. meant. A lot of programmers assumed it meant "give me any type of memory".
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