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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Ptr to top screen
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Date: 9 Apr 90 18:11:18 GMT
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In article <2846@leah.Albany.Edu> (William F. Hammond) writes:
>  One of the things I might want to do on someone else's screen is open
>a window for my application.

Currently not legal but, ...

>  For example, I (the user) often run "VLT" under its custom screen option.
> Sometimes, I "need" to have a memory monitor available there.  

VLT uses the screenshare.library to allow applications to open windows on
the VLT screen. You can use it to, if only I could find the docs I'd 
mail em to you. I believe that it is documented in the VLT manual.

Also there was some discussions about the whole concept of "public screens"
on BIX and Jimm got real excited and well I think we'll have to wait and
see...

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