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From: rodney@delos.stgt.sub.org (Rodney Volz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GFA-Basic and MiNT
Message-ID: <2658@delos.stgt.sub.org>
Date: 2 Oct 90 15:06:26 GMT
References: <5706470@merkur.gtc.de> <7198.2703dbf2@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Organization: delos, Stuttgart, West-Germany
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In article <7198.2703dbf2@uwovax.uwo.ca> 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) writes:
>In article <5706470@merkur.gtc.de>, rodney@merkur.gtc.de (Rodney Volz) writes:
>> ... A further problem is our UUCICO: it's
>
>MiNT is intended to support all TOS system calls. Does GFA-Basic use some
>undocumented system calls? Or is there some other reason that GFA-Basic
>written programs are not usable under MiNT? (If the problem is MiNT, of
>course, that can be fixed.)

Don't ask me if GFA uses dirty tricks, but in fact: neither RTX
nor MiNT did manage to run the uucico in background.

By the way; I use a Ram-based version of Tos 1.4, and MiNT does not work
properly, if I use GEM.PRG to have MiNT run "behind" Gem.  The desktop
seems to fail allocating memory for its screen setup, so I always get "0
bytes in 0 files"... 

If I start MiNT the "normal" way, everything's okay. Even TeX runs
in the background! Wow!!!

-Rodney
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