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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: MiNT, TCSH, CoNnect, Warp9...what they have in common?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.234210.24329@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1dd85mINNlra@skat.usc.edu> <1992Nov6.173721.4625@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1dff3lINN3b5@aludra.usc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:42:10 GMT
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- In article <1dff3lINN3b5@aludra.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
- >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:
- >>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?
-
- I just moved it today, toswin11 has been deleted.
-
- >>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?
-
- The INIT program is much like /etc/init in Unix. Exiting init means you are
- shutting down the system. When the INIT program exits, that means it's time
- for MiNT to deinstall itself.
-
- If you are running MiNT from your AUTO folder, then GEM hasn't been initialized
- yet, so you can't run a GEM program from the INIT there. If you're starting
- MiNT from the desktop or any time after the desktop has come up, then you can
- put a GEM program in for INIT.
- >
- > 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).
-
- I just moved them to the Utilities directory, thanks for the upload.
- >>>and I have no problems whatsoever accessing the Warp9.acc. In fact I can
- > 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?
-
- Forgot about that possibility... Gonna fix that Real Quick...
- >
- >>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....
-
- That would be pretty unusual. Well, there *is* an interrupt vector for the
- Carrier Detect signal, but that is initially disabled and I can't imagine any
- program ever needing to enable it. Also, I can't understand why the interrupt
- would cause a problem even if it was enabled...
-
- In Uniterm the CONNECT message only makes Uniterm crash, and only if I used
- the auto-dialer. You're saying you get a lockup even if you dial manually?
- When you're in this state does Ctrl-Alt-F6 work (list active processes)?
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
-
- All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.
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