TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (02/15/90)
I noticed one strange anomaly with my way of getting the Pc Transporter started up without having its slot always enabled. When you do it the normal way, when the PCT is running you can still hit apple-ctrl-esc to get into the control panel. (which I need to do if I'm going to use the PCT's 5 1/4 drive and have forgotten to slow the TWGS down to normal -- for some reason the PCT can't read it's drive if the TWGS is at warp speed; makes no sense to me, since it CAN acces the apple peripherals, e.g., modem, hardrive, just fine.) With the trick of using $C02D to enable the slot, for some reason the control panel no longer works when the PCT is running -- the screen switches back to a blank apple screen, waits a LONG time, and then comes up with RESTART SYSTEM in 40 col. mode followed by a half line of garbage. Also -- do any of you Finder experts know anythign special the finder does to make itself reloadable on return from the PCT? I tried replacing the normal Quit call I use to execute AEPC.SYSTEM with one that said to leave the caller's ID on the stack so that I could regain control. It didn't work: got a couldn't allocate block memory manager error on the return. or was it a couldn't load tool error -- I've had both; in any case, what should a program do so that when the program it calls with Quit exits it regains control? (I'm using TML pascal, so not doing anything too fancy that I'm aware of with load modules, nor that I have any control over. TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil
lhaider@pro-sol.cts.com (Lawrence Haider) (02/19/90)
In-Reply-To: message from TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
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Also -- do any of you Finder experts know anythign special the finder
does to make itself reloadable on return from the PCT? I tried
replacing the normal Quit call I use to execute AEPC.SYSTEM with one
that said to leave the caller's ID on the stack so that I could regain
control. It didn't work: got a couldn't allocate block memory manager
error on the return. or was it a couldn't load tool error -- I've had
both; in any case, what should a program do so that when the program it
calls with Quit exits it regains control? (I'm using TML pascal, so not
doing anything too fancy that I'm aware of with load modules, nor that I
have any control over.
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I haven't had any problems with entering and exiting the PCTransporter from
the
Finder or from ProSel. I have had difficulty using the IIgs control panel and
getting back to the PCT. After exiting the control panel, I'm left staring at
a blank screen. Apparently the PCT is still working; I can get PCTools to
make
a disk spin, and I can get the PCT control panel to kick me back into GS/OS.
You just have to know how to do it "blind".
Laer
lhaider@pro-sol.cts.com