01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) (05/30/89)
If I have a screen save utility (called NITE.PRG) installed, dbMAN halts execution when the screen blanks and restarts when I touch the mouse or a key to refresh the screen. Why would a screen blank interrupt cause dbMAN to halt? When I have NEOCNTRL.ACC installed, UNITERM goes into some weird mode when I press INSERT to call up the keyboard buffer. The only way out is to reboot my ST. Anyone have ideas on this one?
robing@galadriel.UUCP (Robin Gape) (06/01/89)
From article <8905301722.AA09574@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog): > If I have a screen save utility (called NITE.PRG) installed, dbMAN halts > execution when the screen blanks and restarts when I touch the mouse or a > key to refresh the screen. Why would a screen blank interrupt cause dbMAN > to halt? > > When I have NEOCNTRL.ACC installed, UNITERM goes into some weird mode when > I press INSERT to call up the keyboard buffer. The only way out is to reboot > my ST. Anyone have ideas on this one? Second question. Yes, UNITERM has the exceptionally antisocial habit of burrowing into the keyboard vectors and re-configuring the mouse handler. This is done to allow it to detect simultaneous clicks of the mouse, or some such. Unfortuneately, when UNITERM terminates it does NOT release the vectors bnack to normal operation. This is fine for floppy based systems, and people running under TOS-in-RAM who expect lots of bombs, but a real pain-in-the-anatomy if you're using a hard disk, especially with GDOS. The UNITERM documentation does mention this habit, but it makes no reference to the consequences. Remember, the prog. was written a while ago, when applications tended to be less sophisticated. Hope this helps Robin Gape (robing@uk.co.bt.galadriel)
silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (06/02/89)
In article <8905301722.AA09574@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes: >If I have a screen save utility (called NITE.PRG) installed, dbMAN halts >execution when the screen blanks and restarts when I touch the mouse or a >key to refresh the screen. Why would a screen blank interrupt cause dbMAN >to halt? I don't have the answer, but NITE is obsolete. It was always very buggy and has been replaced by IDLE12, also by Moshe Braner. I use IDLE12 and dBMAN all the time with no problems. IDLE12 is small, and it was recently reposted by Braner. You can get a copy from me if you don't find it elsewhere. Please use the Reply-To: address, I don't have it onthis machine. -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2 UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET