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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mint ? (Eric Smith to replace Bob Dobbs in character set)
Keywords: Bob Dobbs, Eric Smith, Neil Forsyth
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Date: 17 Jun 91 03:00:54 GMT
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(Neil Forsyth) writes:
>(David M. Baggett) writes:
>(Dave Gymer) writes:
>]]Once you get [Mint] running, it _is_ great! (Perhaps someone would care to 
>]]replace the piccy of Bob in the character set with one of Eric Smith?

>Well at least it could be said that Eric had contributed more to the Atari
>commmunity than Dobb's did. If Eric looks like an Acid House smiley then the
>characters would also have a general application.

>The problem would be if one process changed the characters to Eric but another
>wanted them as Bob. Can Mint cope with such a scenario? Would the character
>definitions be stored with the context of each process?

I think the best thing would be to have the Eric Smiley active by default
for programs running in the MiNT domain, while retaining the Standard, but
less socially acceptable Smoking Bob in the TOS domain.  Also, an additional
MiNT library call would be necessary, since some programs will need to run
in the MiNT domain AND use the Smoking Bob characters.

int Pbobacid(flag);
int flag;

If flag&1==0, set the current process's CHaractEr Extra Set Extentions (the well
documented "CHEESE" characters) to follow the Bob convention.  Otherwise, the
IBM-compatible Smiley convention will be used.  Returns the currently selected
state.

Warwick.
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