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From: pwp@shamash.cdc.com ( HOUFAC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do screen-savers do anything useful? Danno says: YES!
Message-ID: <14248@shamash.cdc.com>
Date: 13 Oct 89 14:48:47 GMT
References: <742@sys.uea.ac.uk> <16010@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <27036@dhw68k.cts.com>
Reply-To: pwp@shamash.UUCP (Pete Poorman - HOUFAC)
Organization: Control Data Corp., Arden Hills, MN
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In article <27036@dhw68k.cts.com> thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) writes:
>  I've tried the new Moire (3.0), and quickly discovered that if it activates
>during a downloading session, the download stops. Moire 2.22 didn't do this;
>serial port communication always 'took precedence', and Moire would draw its
>patterns very slowly or not at all, rather than interrupt the current process.
>I didn't notice anything in the Moire 3 documentation that might account for
>this change (perhaps John can comment?) [...]

I too have had trouble with version 3.0 of Moire.  It causes random crashes
when the "Desktop/VE",the communications program I use.  (Desktop/VE provides
a Mac-style interface to Control Data mainframes.)  2.22 works fine.

Dimmer here I come.

--Pete Poorman   pwp@shamash.cdc.com