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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GNU-Emacs 18.51 for Atari ST (TOS), suspending Emacs
Message-ID: <5440044@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 89 19:29:41 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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roeder@sbsvax.UUCP (Edgar Roeder) writes, with regard to suspending gnuemacs:

|
|I have tried this feature with my shell (it is Master 5.6) and everything
|worked fine. I am calling the shell via _shell_p (at $4F6) with an empty string
|as parameter for gulam if it's magic number can be found. Before this the string
|"Program stopped!!!" is written to stderr (handle 2). The call is done in user
|mode of the 68000 and the available stack at this point is about 8 kB. If
|meta-flag is non-nil the conterm variable is configured to return the Shift-key
|status when doing tos-i/o. Emacs does no unusual things beside that.
|
|!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|!!! I would like to hear about experiences of users that have other shells !!!
|!!! which use the _shell_p vector as entry to the commandline-interpreter. !!!
|!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
|Those shells are called with "-i" as single argument to the routine pointed
|to by _shell_p.
|
|Have you tried '(call-process "ls" nil t nil)' from the scratch-buffer
|(or after ESC-ESC) ???
|

Well, the details of the implementation are above my head, I haven't been
programming the ST very long!

Is there something specific I need to set in the shell environment to get
this to play?

I do get the "Program stopped!!!" message, BTW.

I tried C-z from Mark Williams MSH and got a different result. I got "Program
stopped!!!" in the mini-buffer, but emacs did not stop. No bombs in MSH,
though!

Hmm, I need to try call-process.


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