Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!holin!oaa
From: oaa@holin.ATT.COM (Owen Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Textpro 3.2R
Message-ID: <561@holin.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 89 01:10:57 GMT
References: <19518@cup.portal.com>
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Organization: AT&T EUO, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <19518@cup.portal.com>, Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) writes:
> 
>     I am using SpartaDos X version 4.2 with an MIO (256k), 130xe, and 20 meg 
> hard drive.  Whenever I run Textpro3.2r under this it:
>    1) locks up if I let it sit for a few minutes

I am not sure why it locks up.  Can you include how the CONFIG.SYS is
setup and are and drivers running, like KEY or TD?

I would try to start with a simple config, ie. USE SPARTA BANKED, with a
ramdisk.  Copy TextPro to the ramdisk then if possible unpower the MIO,
then run TextPro for a while.  If this works add more components until
you have the configuration in which it fails.

>    2) doesn't allow /C /Z /A to work

The reason these don't work, is that SDX changed the way NOTE and POINT
operations work which TextPro uses for these functions.  Before it would
give an offset relative to the disk, now it gives the offset relative to
a file.  You could possibly try to find the locations in TextPro where
the offsets are calculated, via an XIO call, then change the values
passed, but this might be a bit much.

Another possibility (especially since you have a hard disk) would be to
boot SpartaDOS 3.2d, run TextPro, then re-enter SDX by either going to
BASIC and peeking at an address (5???? I forget it) which re-enables SDX
after you press RESET.

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