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From: ONM65@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Operator Stefan)
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Subject: Re:  GEMINI v1.1 (questions)
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Date: 17 Mar 90 08:01:13 GMT
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In article <53918@bu.edu.bu.edu> (Harry Karayiannis) writes:

>   In the last two days I saw two articles talking about GEMINI v1.1 which is
>   supposed to be "much-much" better than v1.0 (which i currently have)
>
>   Since I like this program very much, I would like to ask 3 questions before
>   I decide to send my registration fee to the author(Fisher if I remember well

Disclaimer: I was never, am not and will never be named 'Fisher'. My name
if Eissing (pronounce it Icing) and I am one of the two authors of Gemini.
I wrote the 'Venus' part of Gemini.

>    1. Has v1.1 solved the problem with the GULAM Shell?
>       (v1.0 is not capable of running any other application after 'gulam' has
>        been executed once)

Gemini makes heavy use of the system() pointer (shell_p is the official name)
and swipes it using the XBRA protocol. GULAM also installs its own pointer
and overwrites Gemini's pointer. But it doesn't deinstall this pointer
on exit. On exit of GULAM shell_p points to freed memory, Gemini jumps
through this vector and BANG! So, this is an (easy to fix) bug in GULAM.
We can't do anything about it.

>    2. Is an icon-editor included with this new version?

No! Use any standard resource construction set instead to edit GEMINIIC.RSC.

>    3. Is there any option allowing GEMINI to deallocate the memory it uses whe
>       another application is launched from the GEMINI desktop(as NeoDesk does)

Not in version 1.1. But the next version will. It's already built in the
version we're hacking on.

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