ugpete@sunybcs (Peter Theobald) (03/03/88)
<<Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Line eater knows!>>
Does anyone know what the following programs do?
Rollback, runback, sideshow, ATV3d, amyload, mwb.
And does anyone know the difference between 'fixobj' that is 6912 bytes long,
and 'fixobj' that is 16376 bytes long?
I gather that runback runs programs in the background; How does this differ
from just 'run'ing a program?
Thanks in advance,
Pete
Peter Theobald SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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csnet: ugpete@buffalo.CSNETdillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (03/03/88)
>Does anyone know what the following programs do? > >Rollback, runback, sideshow, ATV3d, amyload, mwb. mwb is a program I wrote which allows you to divert applications which normally open windows on the workbench screen to open those windows on an mwb-created screen. It consists of two programs: mwb and mwb_resident. The resident portion takes about 2.5K of memory, and patches OpenWindow() and CloseWindow(). The mwb-created screens (can be more than one) are specifiable in height, width, graphics modes, etc... The purpose is to allow one to unclutter his working enviroment. For instance, I usually place my terminal window on a separate mwb screen. mwb was distributed on the net a very long time ago. -Matt
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (03/04/88)
In article <8960@sunybcs.UUCP> ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (Peter Theobald) writes: >And does anyone know the difference between 'fixobj' that is 6912 bytes long, >and 'fixobj' that is 16376 bytes long? I suspect one was compiled with Lattice and the other Manx, in the early stages that would result in these size differences. >I gather that runback runs programs in the background; How does this differ >from just 'run'ing a program? The difference is that Runback allocates a filehandle the points to the bitbucket (NIL:) and passes them as StdIn and StdOut. The regular Run command will pass locks on the current CLI window. The advantage comes when you exit the CLI with EndCLI. If there are outstanding locks on the CLI window, the window will not close. RunBack alleviates this allowing you to end the CLI before the programs you have "run" from it exit. Also note that this is where those mysterious 40 bytes go, there are two locks on NIL: that get created and never freed. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich) (03/05/88)
In article <8960@sunybcs.UUCP> ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (Peter Theobald) writes: >Does anyone know what the following programs do? > >Rollback Rollback allows you to scroll up through old CLI input and output and cut and paste it into editors and such. > sideshow I'm not absolutely sure, but I THINK it lets you type commands in a window and then shoot them over into CLI -- I think it works with rollback. > mwb Lets you open Multiple WorkBenches. In other words, you can have more than one Workbench screen with various applications open on each... >I gather that runback runs programs in the background; How does this differ >from just 'run'ing a program? Runback allows you to run a program as a process independant of the CLI that started it. You may notice that if you RUN a program from a CLI window, then ENDCLI that window, the window will hang around until you kill the dependant process. Runback lets you close down that CLI. -- Jim