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- From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
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- Subject: Re: MiNT, TCSH, CoNnect, Warp9...what they have in common?
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- Date: 7 Nov 92 04:01:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.173721.4625@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:
- >In article <1dd85mINNlra@skat.usc.edu> mbaffoni@skat.usc.edu (Michael Baffoni) writes:
-
- >Which version of MiNT?
-
- Sorry - MiNT .95
-
- >> 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.
-
- I will. Is it moved out of the New directory yet?
-
- >> 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.
-
- Right, but once it can't/isn't loading the program that is to be INITed
- shouldn't it reinstate MiNT and therefore TOSwin? Besides, are there
- limitations on what can and can't be INITed? Like is it a bad idea to INIT a
- GEM program? If not, then why is it not running say CoNnect from the INIT=
- when it works perfectly fine from the desktop?
-
- >> 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.
-
- BTW, I placed the updates from 3.70->3.71->3.72->3.73 up on a.a. a
- couple of weeks ago so it should be available in the usual place (whereever
- that is).
-
- >> 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 thought about that, but I turned the screensaver off (since I had
- access to it) and it didn't help. BTW, why don't you just put "scrnsave.off"
- in your warp9.dat file and it will turn it off for the entire session, or
- configure your warp9.dat file so that it shuts the screensaver off whenever
- you run a program that has problems with it?
-
- >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.
-
- You know something, I can 100% gurantee a lockup whenever I get a
- Connect message from the modem, regardless of whether I am in the dial
- menu or whether I am in the "direct" terminal. In fact, I believe I remember
- ctl-alt-deling while connected, and it being frozen before I could do anything
- (which is unusual since it usually takes some action on my part before
- something crashes). I wonder if just being actively connected to the modem
- has anything to do with it....
-
- >--
- > -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
- >
- >All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.
-
- -Mike
-