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- From: avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink)
- Subject: Re: MiNT incompatabilities & TCSH problem...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.103108.11441@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:31:08 GMT
- References: <1jp6t0INNdoi@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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- In <1jp6t0INNdoi@shelley.u.washington.edu> dud@hardy.u.washington.edu (Daniel Aylward) writes:
-
- >Man, I've never had this complex of a problem! It'll be a nightmare to
- >sort everything out. I'm sure MultiTOS will fix it, because a) I can run
- >toswin as a program, b) it will have a new version of MiNT, and c) it will
- >replace most of TOS, possibly changing the way the bell rings. I sure
- >hope they get it out quick!!!!
- >
- >Has anyone had similar experiences? Probably the worst problem is
- >the lack of filename completion in TCSH; the incompatabilities can be
- >worked around. Is there an entry in tcsh.rc that affects how TCSH
- >uses filename completion? Filename completion worked fine before I
- >reinstalled everything with the MiNT distribution kit...
-
- The problem is quite simple. TOSwin has to do something to output a bell,
- so it does a Bconout(2,7). Somehow that gets redirected as well, and if it
- gets back to TOSWIN (this might be just a mistake), you simply get a stack
- overflow in the end.
-
- Notice that Mupfel has its own bell sound routine, although it sounds the
- same. When I have my bell-hook sample program installed, and the Mupfel
- console is open, the old bell sounds. When I close it, the new bell sounds.
- Therefore I think TOSWIN-likes should do a similar thing. It would be very
- nice as well: every program having it's own kind of bell sound, so that you
- know what's wrong just by the kind of sound you hear :)
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- Annius V. Groenink -- phone (private): +31 5700 29396
- Mathematics/Computer Science -- e-mail (university): avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl
- University of Utrecht --
- Netherland -- ZFC Computing, Deventer (same phone)
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