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From: carpentr@serss0.fiu.edu (Ralph P Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Problems with Kermit
Message-ID: <1025@kluge.fiu.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 01:59:17 GMT
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In article <43319@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) writes:
>>>>My [who??] solution(s): 1) turn the sound OFF from the Control Panel;
>>>>this will make the screen border flash when a BELL character is
>>>>received: a VisiBell, as it were.
>
>(Ralph Carpenter says)
>>>Unfortunately, this requires booting GSOS...much too slow a process if
>>>you're just running a ProDOS-8 program...

	Attribution Fault Detected.

	/I/ suggested the "sound off" solution, to which /Neil Parker/
replied that this required booting GS/OS to work.

	That aside: I thought that Mr. Parker was mistaken in his
assertion, so I booted my Rom01 with ProDOS-8, and turned off the
sound, via the Control Panel CDA.

	To my great surprise & foot-in-mouth-ment, under (just)
ProDOS-8 on my Rom01, this did NOT produce a border flash, just no
sound, and Kermit still lost characters on BELL intercepts. :-( I've
never noticed this before, since I've not booted my GS on pure ProDOS
since before System Software 4.0.  Mr. Parker is correct, though
apparently the border-flash will work on a ProDOS'd Rom03 (per Mr.
Lyons), and it /does/ work on a GS/OS'd Rom01.

	Mr. Parker also mentions that booting GS/OS just to run a
8-bit program is "too slow".  True enough if that's ALL one's going to
do, but I boot my machine each morning at 8:30am and (barring a cr*sh
or two, knock wood) keep it on until 5pm running multitudinous
16-bitters, with only an odd foray into Kermit and its fellow eights.
GS/OS is therefore my normal working environment.  System Software
5.0.2, TransWarpGS & DMA-SCSI make it a mighty pleasant environment,
too, I might add. :-)

	(And sorry, Neil, but I already sold exclusive rights to my
story to ...  Time magazine.  :-) :-) :-) )

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