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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: MiNT, TCSH, CoNnect, Warp9...what they have in common?
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:37:21 GMT
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- In article <1dd85mINNlra@skat.usc.edu> mbaffoni@skat.usc.edu (Michael Baffoni) writes:
- > My journey in search of a system with MiNT, TCSH, Warp9, and CoNnect
- >working very happily together has been a long one with both ups and downs,
- >and strange sights indeed! Let me exemplify:
-
- Which version of MiNT?
- >
- > When I load _just_ MiNT and TOSwin(1.1), I am completely, utterly
- >unable to run another GEM program - PID errors and such.
-
- Mebbe you should get the Toswin 1.4 that Eric Smith recently put on a.a.
- >
- > If I load _just_ MiNT and TOSwin and have something "INIT="ed,
- >it says "leaving MiNT" just before it drops me into the desktop, nothing
- >running, and every .acc except TOSwin is loaded. I can't run .prgs.
-
- If you specify an INIT in your MINT.CNF file then it ordinarily will not
- make it to the GEM desktop, so TOSwin is irrelevant then. The "leaving MiNT"
- message means your INIT program exited, so MiNT shuts down. TOSwin is
- absent from the resulting desktop because it only installs itself if MiNT
- is active.
- >
- > If I load Warp9 (as well as all the rest of my junk), MiNT, TOSwin,
- >Warp9.acc, then everything has the new font, but I still can't run any
- >.prgs. Warp9.acc is accessible, no bombs.
-
- Strange. Warp9.acc almost always caused a lockup for me. I've only installed
- the patch for 3.71 tho, I'm not up to the current (3.73?) yet.
- >
- > If I load Warp9 (as well as all the rest of my junk), MiNT, TOSwin,
- >Warp9.acc and have ConNect set to autorun (from the inst app of GEM), it runs
- >at bootup, just like it should, Warp9 is active, MiNT and TOSwin are active,
- >and I have no problems whatsoever accessing the Warp9.acc. In fact I can
- >quit CoNnect, it puts me at the desktop, I can run most of my .prgs (including
- >the old, original First Word!) and both Warp9 and TOSwin accs are accessible.
- >No bombs. This would be idyllic....EXCEPT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE IT SEMI-LOCKS
- >UP!
-
- I've noticed that the Warp9 screen saver tends to lock up my MiNT sessions.
- I haven't figured out how to disable the screen saver yet.
-
- I also have problems with a lot of programs when BIOSBUFfering is active.
- Uniterm exits with a bus error when it detects the CONNECT string after
- auto-dialing a number. Big pain, haven't been able to track it.
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
-
- All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.
-