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From: d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (SVEN AXELSSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Moire stopping downloads? (was: Do screensavers do anything?)
Message-ID: <2452@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 15 Oct 89 16:45:53 GMT
References: <1271@orbit.UUCP>
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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In article <1271@orbit.UUCP>, pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Jacoby) writes:
> 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.
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You must have a pretty rotten terminal program that cannot handle this. I have
never had this kind of problem. However, Moire 3.0 has a hidden feature that
allows you to set it to watch the modem and/or printer port and not turn itself
on if it sees any activity there. Just open up the Moire cdev with ResEdit and
go to DITL = -4064. Here you can see two check-boxes named modem port and
printer port respectively. Mr Lim decided to leave these out of the normal
dialog because it would be too cluttered. If you are not running a Mac II
the large colour button is of no use, so you can swap this for the two
check-boxes.
Hope this helps.

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