Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucselx!petunia!csuchico.edu!ekrimen
From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Phantom typist again
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.210547.11860@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 90 21:05:47 GMT
References: <2376@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET)
Organization: California State University, Chico
Lines: 44

wagener@max.bnl.gov (Richard Wagener) writes:

- Question: Does this occur only with a particular version of TOS?
 
No.

- I am encountering this problem now with WordPerfect 4.1 on a 520ST
- upgraded to 1 Mb and running TOS 1.2.
 
Recently, while using Word Writer to type papers for finals, I got 
the phantom typist.  Luckily, I was able to still save the document.  
It seems that the input via the mouse and keyboard is delayed a lot.
I found that moving the mouse then hitting a key would make the mouse
move a little faster than just moving it without hitting a key.  BTW,
this was on an STe with TOS 1.6 and one meg.

- I have an older 1040ST at work running TOS 1.0 and I would like to
- know whether swapping the two would solve the problem.
 
I had the same problem on my 1040 with TOS 1.0, and this is where I 
first used my roundabout solution.

- Alternatively, has anybody ever found a satisfactory solution
- (software patch) to this problem?
 
Not me.

- And finally is there an archive someplace that saves such solutions 
- to common problems?
 
I'd suppose the monthly posting for the intro to c.s.a.s would be as 
good a place as any.

On a related note, I heard either here or somewhere (little aliens 
coming down and telling me) that TOS 3.01 (on the TT) is basically a 
complete rewrite of TOS.  I wonder if the phantom typist would strike 
on it as well.  On the other hand, there was the possibility that the 
problem is in the keyboard processor.  Does the TT have the same 
keyboard processor as in the ST?
-- 
         Ed Krimen  ...............................................
   |||   Video Production Major, California State University, Chico
   |||   INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu  FREENET: al661 
  / | \  SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261        FIDONET: 1:119/4.0