Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!7103_2622
From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MiNT & MGR: How Opening a window ?
Message-ID: <7440.271b6c49@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 17 Oct 90 00:23:37 GMT
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> Great thanks to Eric Smith for MiNT; It look's quite well after some
> minutes playing with it. But if I start mgr and try to open a
> window (initially there is none) I get the error message
> 	Can't get a pty
> What have I to do here ?

You're welcome.

How much memory do you have? With 1 megabyte of memory, by the time MiNT
and MGR are loaded there is very little left. You'll have to remove all
ramdisks, etc. to get enough memory to open a window; also I recommend using
a fairly small shell (e.g. MiNT's init.prg). Make sure that the SHELL
environment variable is set to the full path and name of your shell, with
a command like "setenv SHELL c:\init.prg" (you can put this in the file
init.rc if you're using MiNT's default init.prg).

If all else fails, push CTRL-ALT-F1 twice and try again. The screen will
show a trace of what's happening as you try to open the window; from this
you may be able to see what's wrong.
--
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario   ersmith@uwovax.bitnet
London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7
ph: (519) 661-3638