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From: mrose@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose)
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Subject: Re: Using MGR and Gulam under MiNT
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Date: 24 Oct 90 18:07:58 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.214236.13561@math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>In article <1990Oct23.181421.23453@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mrose@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose) writes:
>>Hello everyone!
>
>>	I sent a post about this a couple of days ago, but it seems 
>>to have vanished... oh, well...  I was hoping that someone could
>>please explain how to set up MGR to run under MiNT.  I have gotten it
>>to run, but I still can't seem to get the icons and different fonts to
>>work at all.  Could someone post an example MGR.RC file which shows
>>the proper way of setting up the default paths?  How do you use the 
>>font program?  Also, I can't seem to get Gulam to work with MGR.  How 
>>do I get MGR to run the VT52.PRG before it executes Gulam?
>>	Also, I tried using BGACC with MiNT and it gives me two bombs
>>when I get the item selector to run a prg in the backround.  I only had
>>Folder300.prg in the auto folder with MiNT following, and no other prgrams or
>>accs.  The only other thing that was installed was my hard disk autobooting
>>driver, the Atari one that came with my Megafile 44.  I am using TOS 1.4.
>>Does anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks very much!
>
>How much memory do you have?

	I have two megs.

>For your mgr startup, try something like
>	setenv MGRFONT c:/mgr/icon

	I tried it, it still doesn't work.  You are talking about the
MGR.RC file right?  Where should it be located?  What shoudl I call the
file?  And what about the MGR.RC file in the font directory, what do I 
do with that one?

>For Gulam, you can start up VT52.PRG yourself. I use "half" to create a
>new window running the vt52 program, e.g.
>	half vt52

	What is half?  And what does it do?

>I don't use Gulam in mgr. I suppose it would be good to recompile Gulam to
>use termcap and the MiNT calls, but I thought Jwahar Bammi was doing that.
>I recompiled the microemacs that comes with Mark Williams C, using termcap,
>and I just use that now. 
>--
>  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
>  one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip
>	if one of those data bits happens to flip,
>		one million data bits stored on the chip...


				Thanks!

				Michael Rose
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