Msg: 5937 *Conference*

08-10-95 03:01:44

From: COMET _

To : RON WIESEN

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #5933 (UNDELETE -- COLD START RECOVERY)

Thanks, Ron, for your great ideas.  What do you think of storing data within
the area of the first BASIC program, by overwriting some of it?  Certainly the
programs survive a cold-start; only the file directory (and various OS
pointers/data structures) get explicitly reinitialized during startup.  Since
the data won't contain a triple null byte, and the first BASIC program never
moves, it should be safe to put "garbage BASIC" inside the address space.  :)