ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) (01/15/91)
I thought this was pretty cool. TOS 1.4 auto boots NEODESK, which autoboots SOFTLINK which sets up three virtual desktops and subsequently starts NOTATOR in partition one. I start a sequence of music playing in NOTATOR, and then, with a key click, i enter partition 2, load TEMPUS, and begin printing a file WHILE i am hearing NOTATOR playing midi music, then with another key click, i enter partition 3, load STalker from MULTIDESK and put it in miniBBS mode... my friend calls and logs on and runs GULAM remotely.. I was even able to run another NOTATOR session launched from the TEMPUS editor. I thought all this was pretty slick. The environment is a bit fragile... FOr instance, if you want to REMOVE a multidesk accessory, the partiton bombs.. also, we haven't been able to figure out how to get the command line shell (gulam in this case) to work for the remote user on his end .. doesn't seem to echo to the remote user, but definitely runs gulam and is displayed on the host. -kevin
ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) (01/15/91)
In article <STEVELA.91Jan14132025@beach.csulb.edu> stevela@beach.csulb.edu (Steve La) writes: >Just curious, what is SOFTLINK? >-- >+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ >| Steve La California State University Long Beach | >| Internet: SteveLa@CSULB.EDU Telecommunications | >| Voice: (213) 985-4750 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach CA 90840 | SOFTLINK is a program that came with the update (2.2) to NOTATOR (currently at 3.0).. it is basically a RAM partitioning software that allows a certain amount of multi-tasking. For example, i can have NOTATOR playing music in the background while i am in another partition printing out a TEMPUS file.. or in another partition running STalker BBS etc.. as it is now, i cannot print NOTATOR files in the background.. when i swtich to another partition, the printing stops.. will resume when returning to the NOTATOR partition. Partitions switch immediately.. and so far, NEODESK and MULTIDESK work, though i have had some problems with figuring out the optimum memory allocation per partition. You can run SOFTLINK from your auto folder... and the desktops are set up at bootup time.. you can even have several softlink setups with whatever name you want.. load them via SUPERBOOT etc.. it would be nice if SOFTLINK stored your customized desktops per partition along with any accessories and autoload programs specific to each desktop (can have up to 9 partitions). I am happy with this setup so far.. at least i can have a text editor in one partition sending text to a printer.. bounce over to NOTATOR and print out a score onto the same page.. go back to editor etc.. would be nice to have a score format that can be loaded into something like CALAMUS... maybe soon.. -kevin .
rosenqui@crc.skl.dnd.ca (Eric Rosenquist) (01/16/91)
In article <14366@milton.u.washington.edu> ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes: >I thought this was pretty cool. > >TOS 1.4 auto boots NEODESK, which autoboots >SOFTLINK which sets up three virtual >desktops and subsequently starts NOTATOR >in partition one. > > [stuff deleted] > >.. also, we haven't been able >to figure out how to get the command line shell >(gulam in this case) to work for the remote >user on his end .. doesn't seem to echo >to the remote user, but definitely runs gulam >and is displayed on the host. You most likely have TurboST or QuickST loaded. They sit in the BIOS trap chain and prevent STalker from being able to redirect the console output to the serial port (i.e., they grab the characters before STalker even sees them and stick them on the ST screen). I believe this is mentioned in one of the CHANGES.20x files on the disk by the way :-) Eric