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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Attention Final Writer and ScalaMM users
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 01:36:59 GMT
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- 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. 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)
-
- : Commercial break
- : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Well, this was a sneaky way to get the info in. ;) Hope your
- project does well and leads to improvements in the OS. (and that
- $credit$ goes where it is due)
-