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From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Using MGR and Gulam under MiNT
Message-ID: <7523.27275f0e@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 26 Oct 90 01:54:22 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.181421.23453@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1990Oct23.214236.13561@math.lsa.umich.edu> <1990Oct24.180758.8088@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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>In article <1990Oct23.181421.23453@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mrose@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose) writes:
>	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?

The environment variables must be set *before* MGR is run. For example, if
you're using the default init.prg that comes with MiNT, put commands like
   setenv MGRFONT c:/mgr/font
   setenv MGRICON c:/mgr/icon
in it. The MGR.RC has nothing to do with setting up these paths; rather,
it allows you to customize the MGR environment. See the mgr.1 file in the
docs/ directory.

As for Gulam -- try "vt52 gulam" while in the same directory as gulam.
WARNING: make sure your gulam.g file turns off mouse handling; otherwise,
gulam will steal the mouse vector from MGR and mess things up. Also, gulam
isn't very nicely behaved in a multitasking environment, because it redefines
the keyboard; if it's killed accidentally, the keyboard stays redefined, which
makes for big problems when another program gets loaded into the memory gulam
used to occupy (the keyboard map gets filled with random garbage).

>	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!

Strange. Does the bomb happen after you select the program to run? If so,
it's probably the program you picked. If not, try hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 twice
after you've picked the program but before you click on "OK". You'll get a
detailed report of what's going on inside of MiNT, which may help you to
isolate the problem.

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