Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!asuvax!ukma!psuvax1!psuvm!dbngmd13!dmswwu1c!onm07 From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian F. Reschke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: How to use the VDI from the Autofolder Message-ID: <91147.125357ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET> Date: 28 May 91 06:18:47 GMT References: <1991May24.184249.21414@imada.ou.dk> Lines: 21 Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany In article , entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu (maximum entropy) says: > >Pardon me if I'm wrong, but everything I've ever read about the ST's >GEM (specifically the Abacus volume) has said "V_OPNWK AND V_CLSWK ARE >NOT IMPLEMENTED IN ATARI ST GEM" (OK, maybe they didn't use all caps >:-) Isn't this a really bad idea, especially when you've just flamed >someone for using undocumented variables in another posting? > This simply is not true. v_opnwk and v_clswk work absolutely ok, as long as you only access the screen workstation. For printers and other devices, you need GDOS - as documented in the official docs and all good books. >Or does GEM use these these functions itself upon starting up? > Sure. How could iot work otherwise? ___________________________ cut here _____________________________________ Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-4400 Muenster, Phone: ++49 251 861241 fast eMail: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET, slow: jr@ms.maus.de (++49 251 77216) ____________________ correct me if I'm wrong _____________________________