#Help with pure bit
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I need a little assistance please.
Recently I had to reconstruct my Whap disk which I use to boot my system
(A500 with 1 meg and 2 floppies).
Everything *seems* to work fine–system boots and Whap functions as it
should (as far as I can tell). However, during the booting of the system,
the message "Pure bit not set" displays on the screen.
Exactly what es this message mean, and what should I do to correct the
situation?
via Whap! Al Benglen
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"Pure bit not set" means that a command is being made resident that does
not have it's pure bit set (the 'p' in '–p-rwed' shown by the list
command). If a program is 'pure', it is safe to make resident; if not, it
may have or cause problems when running from a resident state, but then,
may not – no guarantees. When you make a non-pure command resident ( ie
RESIDENT C:IconX PURE ), the Operating System returns the 'pure bit…'
message as a reminder. To get rid of the message, insert a '>NIL:'
immediately after RESIDENT ( ie RESIDENT >NIL: C:IconX ).
hope this helps,
Edjs
Edward_Swatschek@mindlink.bc.ca
– via Whap!
Thanks very much for the help and the explanation.
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You say you had to reconstruct your Whap disk. Do you mean you used
DiskDoctor or DiskSalv to repair it? If so, my guess is that the P status
flag of one of the programs run during startup is now missing. If you can
find out which one it is, you can set this flag again using:
protect <filename> add p
where of course <filename> is the name of the file.
Shraddhan – via Whap! from Hertfordshire in the UK
Thanks for your help.
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