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From: cjr@cs.bham.ac.uk (Chris Ridd <RiddCJ>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The 'Phantom Typist'--It's back: in TOS
Message-ID: <943@christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Mar 90 09:16:17 GMT
References: <9343.25ffe423@ecs.umass.edu> <5863.260753c0@judy.uh.edu>
Reply-To: cjr@christopher-robin.UUCP (Chris Ridd <RiddCJ>)
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In article <5863.260753c0@judy.uh.edu> cosc10hv@judy.uh.edu (Paul Sears) writes:
>In article <9343.25ffe423@ecs.umass.edu>, beroll@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>>I was trying to put Uniterm in an AUTO folder so I could (be lazy) and run it
>>as the computer was turned on.  It didn't work (any ideas?) and I got 4 bombs (
>>...
>>just my 1040 ST(f) with 1 meg and TOS (1.2 I beleive).
>>
>>                                               Dave
>
>Well, one of your problems is apparant - UNITERM can't be run directly in the
>AUTO folder.  Uniterm is a full GEM programs and GEM is not loaded until AFTER
>the programs in the AUTO folder are run first.  Almost any GEM program run in
>the auto folder will bomb...
>

  Unless of course Dave has TOS 1.4 :-)  Did you know that we still don't have
TOS 1.4 here in the UK?  Has it arrived in Germany or Holland yet?

     Chris

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