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From: cjy@uafhp.uark.edu (Calvin Yockey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Phantom Typist Sighting!  (Only Elvis has more...)
Summary: check out phantom.arc
Message-ID: <6442@uafhp.uark.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 18:51:24 GMT
References: <1991May11.063123.12427@ecst.csuchico.edu> <2787@prles2.prl.philips.nl>
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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In article <2787@prles2.prl.philips.nl>, johnj@knor.prl.philips.nl (John Janssen) writes:
> 
> We had a small discussion of the phantom typist in c.s.a.st.tech
> recently.
> 
.... explanations of conclusions deleted ....
> --
> John Janssen        Check the email address in the header, as this
> J.v.Deventerstr.1   may have been filled in wrong by the system.
> Venlo Holland
> +31 77 513177       Reply to: johnj@idms.prl.philips.nl

     About a year ago, I captured the phantom typist in a session saved from
Revolver (the task switching program that allows you to save and restore all
memory from a virtual session created by that software).  Thus, the phantom
typist could be loaded at any time for inspection by anyone with a 4 Meg machine
and the Revolver software.  I posted an article and ftp'ed a file 'phantom.arc'
to 'atari.archive', hoping someone more competent than I would be able to 
examine the situation in detail and discover once and for all what causes the
phantom to appear.  I never heard from anyone who even looked at the files.
Maybe if some of the interest in it has rekindled, someone will check it out.

Calvin Yockey
University of Arkansas
cjy@uafhp.uark.edu