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From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: AMC-GDOS fonts to GDOS fonts
Keywords: AMC-GDOS GDOS fonts
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.100030@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 28 Sep 90 08:00:30 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.092924.23920@newcastle.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Sep26.092924.23920@newcastle.ac.uk>,
J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk (Julian Coleman) writes:
|> I am having problems with AMC-GDOS in that some Gem programs cause the
error :
|>                 ---------------------------------------
|>                 |  /--\                               |
|>                 | |STOP|  GDOS-Error : invalid handle |
|>                 |  \--/                               |
|>                 |              --------               |
|>                 |              | QUIT |               |
|>                 |              --------               |
|>                 ---------------------------------------
|> Having written a program to look into this, it occurs when opening or
closing
|> a virtual screen workstation.  This error only occurs with AMC-GDOS and
not
|> Atari GDOS.

GDOS is faulty here, not AMC-GDOS. If you open/close a virtual workstation
with an invalid VDI handle AMC-GDOS notices this error and shows the alert
box above. GDOS simply ignores the error.

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