There are docs in freemint/doc directory, explaining basic stuff, but nobody reads them, as it appears. No wonder then if users are lost with such a matter as protection flags.A link to that, please! a link to that! :-)
Uhm, here is a link to SpareMiNT website: http://sparemint.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/freemint/doc/beginner/This may be a bit outdated, as it was written in 2002, but anyway certainly no fundamental stuff has changed since, so ...
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