512 byte header!?

Andreas Raab Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Wed May 8 12:29:34 UTC 2002


Göran,

This used to be a bug in the Windows code base. Squeak has always
supported an optional 512byte header but this was broken. Now it's fixed
again.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:38 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: 512 byte header!?
> 
> 
> What about this 512 byte image header? I had to do a:
> 
> dd if=original.image of=patchedimage.image ibs=512 skip=1
> 
> ...and then this image works on W2k with Andreas' newly 
> posted VM at SF,
> but not before.
> 
> I have lost the postings about this so I have no idea what the problem
> is/was or anything.
> Note: Currently I am using Ian's VM on Linux - perhaps that is the
> source of the problem.
> 
> regards, Göran
> 




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