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From: rosenqui@crc.skl.dnd.ca (Eric Rosenquist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.music
Subject: Re: SOFTLINK really multitasks !
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.204414.6547@crc.skl.dnd.ca>
Date: 15 Jan 91 20:44:14 GMT
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Organization: Software Kinetics Limited
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In article <14366@milton.u.washington.edu> ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes:
>I thought this was pretty cool.
>
>TOS 1.4 auto boots NEODESK, which autoboots
>SOFTLINK which sets up three virtual
>desktops and subsequently starts NOTATOR
>in partition one.
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
>.. also, we haven't been able
>to figure out how to get the command line shell
>(gulam in this case) to work for the remote
>user on his end .. doesn't seem to echo
>to the remote user, but definitely runs gulam
>and is displayed on the host.

You most likely have TurboST or QuickST loaded.  They sit in the BIOS
trap chain and prevent STalker from being able to redirect the console
output to the serial port (i.e., they grab the characters before
STalker even sees them and stick them on the ST screen).  I believe
this is mentioned in one of the CHANGES.20x files on the disk by the
way :-)

Eric