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- From: petrin@walrus.megabaud.fi (Petri Nordlund)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Attention Final Writer and ScalaMM users
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 18:20:46 +0200
- Organization: Megabaud Oy,Helsinki,Finland
- Message-ID: <4crg8u$2s3@walrus.megabaud.fi>
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-
- David Meyer (dmeyer@tiac.net) wrote:
- >Petri Nordlund (petrin@walrus.megabaud.fi) wrote:
- >: A bug has been found from these programs that may not be evident until
- >: you install Executive. (Executive is UNIX-like task scheduler, see
- >: http://www.megabaud.fi/~petrin/Executive.html).
- >:
- >: Final Writer
- >: ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >: While printing a document, Final Writer can crash or mess up the output
- >: if its priority is lower than printer.device-task's priority. This happens
- >:
- >: ScalaMM
- >: ~~~~~~~
- >: ScalaMM has problems with changing priorities also. To fix, add these
- >: lines to you Executive.prefs-file:
- >
- > While I appreciate your notice of the potential conflict when
- >using either of these programs with Executive, I question your choice of
- >wording. Your program does things that the OS was not intended to do.
- >_YOU_ are changing the rules. Softwood and Scala followed the rules.
-
- I'm not changing any rules, Commodore newer guaranteed anywhere that
- task priorities would always remain fixed. Users can change them with
- the ChangeTaskPri utility.
-
- Also, it's nowhere guaranteed that printer.device task's priority
- is 0 by default. It could be +1, -1 or something else in the next
- OS release.
-
- Of course I admit Executive does something that hasn't been attempted
- before, and it works perfectly with 99.9% of software. The 0.1% will
- work too, just tell Executive not to change their priorities. The few
- programs that cause problems are either automatically noticed by the
- installation script, or you can easily add them with a few mouseclicks
- using ExecutivePrefs.
-
- Executive has constantly been on Aminet charts since it was released
- four months ago, and CU Amiga magazine made it the highest rated
- program ever, at 98%, so I think at least somebody likes it. :)
-
- >It is therefore incorrect to suggest that these programs have bugs due to
- >the conflict with your program. Bugs are errors in the programming.
- >Conflicts are not always due to errors. Sometimes you need to chance
- >conflicts in order to produce something "better", like Executive and MUI
- >claim to be. (not doubting, understand, not knowing either)
-
- In this case, it's a bug, not a conflict.
- --
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- Petri Nordlund __/// petrin@megabaud.fi
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