[comp.sys.atari.st] Chameleon

ki@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Karsten Isakovic) (05/07/91)

In article <ODDJOB.91May6092412@oz.oz.plymouth.edu> oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel) writes:
>One other thing.....
>   That Chmeleon.acc in the distribution doesn't like wm.arc (Wholly
>Macro) that's at atari.archive.umich.edu in atari/printing (?). It
>loads it but then can't unload it..... had to reboot.
>
>-Andy-

Hello Andy,

if an DA hooks into system vectors and does not follow the XBRA rules,
Chameleon can't unload it.  Make a folder with 'well-behaved' DAs and
another folder with the 'bad-guys'. 

A lot of people load the DMC-laserbrain with Chameleon even knowing that
they can't unload it (because it does not following the XBRA-rules...).
Loading the printer-driver at boot time costs a lot of memory. If you load
it with Chameleon, you only loose this memory if you really want to print
something... They install 2 or 3 Chameleon's, one only for the laserbain, 
the other two for loading/unloading DAs. 

If Chameleon is propperly installed under GEMINI, you just have to double-click
onto a DA-file or icon to load it via Chameleon.

Karsten Isakovic    <SysMon, OverScan, Chameleon, ConsFix, VdiFix...>