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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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Subject: Re: Phantom typist and mystic (Was: Timedrv5 (and: 1st Word Plus))
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Date: 2 Jan 91 21:44:28 GMT
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jvt@its.bt.co.uk (John Trickey) writes:

- I too have recently re-discovered the Typist - or at least I think 
- it is.  I occasionally use mystic to format higher capacity disks 
- when I don't want doMeSDOS (is that a UK joke) compatibility. I have
- found that mouse movement too soon after clicking the format button
- causes a key down fault.  This appears to be the ESC key as the
- directory windows are updated although pressing any key will stop 
- the problem.  This is 100% reproducable on my system and does not 
- seem to require the presence of any other accessory.  As yet my cure
- is to count to 5 before moving the mouse - but if those chasing this
- bug want more info I will look at it more seriously (by email please). 

This occurs not only with Mystic, but with all, if not most, desk 
accessories using the pseudo-multitasking feature.  I have 
experienced the repeated key syndrome while uploading with STalker, 
the do-everything-in-the-background desk accessory terminal program by
Eric Rosenquist, and typing in a text editor like STeno, which comes 
with STalker.  (No, Eric didn't pay me to say that.  He just writes 
great programs.)  I asked him about the problem and he's looked into 
it a lot, but hasn't found a cure.  It seems Atari hasn't been to 
helpful in discovering a cure, or even recognizing the problem.  If I 
remember correctly, it's the keyboard interrupt interfering with the
multitasking (is it 'evnt_multi' or something like that?).  He 
mentioned something about waiting for Doug Wheeler's (from Gadgets) 
routines from the Megatalk board, I think.  He said they should work 
right.  I'm not sure what correlation Megatalk board has with it, but 
it sounded promising. :^)  I asked Eric about this a while ago, so my 
memory about it is a little foggy.

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         Ed Krimen  ...............................................
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