Date   : Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:30:38
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: How to *SPOOL result of *INFO?

In article <061008105502@...>,
   Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:

[text output from DFS]

> If you're into reprogramming your DFS EPROM, then with DFS 1.2x
> changing the byte at &B994 from &AA to &60 disables the code that
> changes the output stream with *FX3.

You like living dangerously - surely FX3 is disabled for a reason? It's
probably quite difficult to predict what might happen.

I agree it's not overly difficult to allow spooling from the FS if plumbed
in from the beginning: it's mainly a workspace corruption thing, checking
that the action of printing something out from the INFO code which in turn
enters the BPUT code, which corrupts something the INFO code relies on.

Most likely it was found late in the QA cycle and the quickest fix was just
to do the FX3 messing rather than revisit all locations which print things!
Sprow.