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- From: WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: VLT config and download mysteries...
- Message-ID: <92226.152236WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 23:22:36 GMT
- References: <crystal.713680997@glia>
- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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- Crystal -
- The reason you're using 76 columns, I suspect, is that you
- want to have VLT run on the Workbench in a window *and* you want to use the
- larger font, *and* you're not using overscan. Well, with an 8 pixel wide
- font and a 640 pixel Workbench, you can only have 80 columns if you have
- *no* borders for your window. Since on the Workbench the window does have
- (big) borders, you found that you have to reduce the number of columns to
- 76 in order to get the bigger font.
- To get it to work properly, you either have to use VLT on a
- custom screen, or you have to set your Workbench to 680 pixels wide or so.
- I recommend that you set your Workbench wider anyway. Then set the number
- of columns in VLT back to 80. This will solve pretty much all the problems
- you saw with vi. The one other thing you may have set wrong is the "destructive
- backspace" option in the operation menu. Set this to off for use with vi.
- The problem you may be seeing with Kermit could be due to several
- things. VLT has to update the status display but if you do things on your
- machine that "lock the layers" for extended periods of time, then VLT
- can't update the display and while it is trying to do so won't proceed
- with the download. Other problems may be related to problems with the
- software you're trying to run at the same time. If any of that disables
- interrupts for too long, the serial.device will (have to) drop characters
- with all nasty consequences thereof. Unfortunately, some hard disk driver
- software suffers from the same problem, so heavy disk activity may cause
- the same thing. On accelerated machines these problems aren't as obvious
- as on non-accelerated ones... The solution to this particular problem is,
- unfortunately, to just not do the things that cause trouble.
-
- Willy.
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- Willy Langeveld - Bitnet: WGLP09 @ SLACVM - BIX: langeveld
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