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From: d_alvear@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dom Alvear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Flash & QuickST
Message-ID: <8021@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 17 Apr 91 01:30:54 GMT
References: <2804b3e4.2556@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <2804b3e4.2556@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> sslee@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steven Lee) writes:
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>I have Flash v1.52 and QuickST v.2.20 and it seems either no one comes across
>this problem or everyone is just ignoring it.  The problem is that Flash
>tends to leave remaining cursors everywhere on the screen (I'm emulating
>vt100).  Even when I disable QuickST, it still does this.  Only when I
>not load in QuicskST on autoboot does the problem disappear.

My brother has QuickST 2.10 (I don't know if he's updated to the
latest version.).  I used Flash 1.60 on his computer and I got the
cursor left-overs as well.  I told Darek Mihoka about it, but he
didn't believe me.  (Said something about it being a problem with
Flash or that I was using an older version of Q-ST...)  Obviously it
is a problem with Q-ST 2.20 as well.  Incidentally, Turbo ST 1.84 does
NOT leave junk all over the screen, but it unfortunately disables the
ability for Flash to display underlines.

>I've tried using some german program (called fixflash or something like
>that) but it doesn't seem to work.  Alas, I have no docs to that program.

Does anybody know what this program (fixflash) does?  If it fixes the
problem with the underline in TurboST I'd love to see it on
atari.archive!

>I'm not sure which program is at fault, but it sure is annoying.  It even
>warrants me to boot Flash on my disk drive (yech!) as opposed to my hard
>drive so I don't have to reconfigure my autoboot programs there.

Why not use a program like SuperBoot or DeskManager?  It'll make your
life much easier in the long run!

>
>Steven

Dom