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From: hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MUSIC-X comments [long]
Keywords: MUSIC-X Amiga MIDI
Message-ID: <1774@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 89 18:14:56 GMT
References: <2382@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser)
Organization: SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca.
Lines: 49

In article <2382@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>
>Mr. David Joiner
>c/o Microillusions
>17408 Chatsworth Street
>Granada Hills, CA  91344
>
>
>1. Possible Bugs?
>
>   Releasing The Serial Port
>      I think MUSIC-X does not release the serial  port  properly
>   when it exits.  Suppose I invoke MUSIC-X from the CLI and then
>   exit.  When I try to run  other  serial-port  programs  (VT100
>   emulator, and other MIDI programs) they cannot open the serial
>   port.  If I simply try to run MUSIC-X again,  it  CAN  re-open
>   the serial port.  Hmmm.  A warm boot clears up the problem.  I
>   have the source code for the other serial-port programs, so  I
>   know they are trying to open the port legally.
>
Yes.. this is a known bug. The info I got was that Joiner telecomms
with "Online!" which doesn't use the serial.device so he never
noticed the problem. :-/

At any rate, Mike Berro of Microillusions posted to People/Link a
few days ago that there is now an upgrade available to registered
owners of Music-X.  I phoned them and was told to send my original
"Program" and "Utilities" disks and they would be copied over with
the new upgrade/fixed versions of everything and sent back to me no
charge.  So I suggest you (and any other Music-X owners reading
this) do the same.  Make backup copies of those two disks before
mailing them.. they're not copy protected and you'll still have the
programs while your originals are in the hands of the US Postal
Service (eeek!). 

As far as what other known or assumed bugs the upgrade fixes, I
don't have that info handy, but the "reboot to use your modem" bug
was the most important one to me and worth the minor hassle of
mailing the disks just to get THAT one fixed. 

Microillusions' phone number(s) and address are in your Music-X
manual so take it from there.



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