Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!JWANKERL From: JWANKERL@UTCVM.BITNET ("Josef W. Wankerl") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: a2fx/hfslink Message-ID: <9010081409.AA12773@apple.com> Date: 8 Oct 90 14:02:13 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 On Sat, 6 Oct 90 05:19:20 GMT said: >In article jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. > Mereness) writes: > >[stuff deleted] > >>Sure, but neither does the Mac. Not really. And I would like to do >>some "false multitasking" like downloading in the background > >Have you tried Transfusion from EGO systems? They publish GS+ which >is, in my opinion, a rather nice magazine/disk devoted to the GS. >Both EGOed and Transfusion( which is being rewritten in Orca/C) are >NDA's. Transfusion does download in the background. > >While I'm at it, are there any ANSI Basic languages for the GS? What >about Orca/C? Does it follow (strictly) the ANSI C standard? Transfusion was written entirely in ORCA/C. Yes, ORCA/C is strictly an ANSI C compiler (with a bug here and there even with version 1.1!) EGOed was written in TML Pascal II and will be rewritten in C one day if Diz can ever get around to it. Transfusion uses the RunAction NDA event to download "in the background" if you can call it that. It stops your application long enough to receive/send a packet, then it lets your application go back to work for a while (very short while) then it tries to send/receive another packet. >Philip McDunnough >University of Toronto >philip@utstat.toronto.edu >[my opinions] -- ===> Josef W. Wankerl, college student | "I am a Viking" -Y. Malmsteen ProLine: jwankerl@pro-gsplus | BITNET: JWANKERL@UTCVM InterNet: jwankerl@pro-gsplus.cts.com | UUCP: ...crash!pro-gsplus!jwankerl ARPA/DDN: ...crash!pro-gsplus!jwankerl@nosc.mil | I'm employed by EGO, GS+!