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to: Frank Malcolm
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1996-08-26 08:22:24
subject: zmodem

BL> I am reading memory directly at address $0040:$006C which gives
 BL> me the ticks since midnight and works very well... but it won't
 BL> work when the vampires come out.

 FM> Just compare this one with the last one. If it was pretty big,
 FM> and it's now pretty small, midnight probably happened - adjust
 FM> accordingly.

  The problem is that I can't adjust because I don't know the midnight
count... short of adding more crap inside the loop. What I did was
just start again.

 FM> If it was something, and it's now a bit less (or a fair bit
 FM> more) - someone probably reset the time. Can't do much about
 FM> that.

  That's not a problem. I'm only timing fractional seconds.

Regards,
Bob
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