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From: pmh@cutie.ka.sub.org (Patrick M. Hausen)
Subject: Re: requirements to use VDI
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
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References: <1991Jun19.112606.20682@convex.com> <1991Jun19.161901.1808@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1991Jun20.124043.8248@imada.ou.dk> <3149@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 25 Jun 91 19:22:04 GMT
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In article <3149@cod.NOSC.MIL> healy@cod.NOSC.MIL (Mike Healy) writes:

> I can give you one good reason I determined empirically. A while back I
> posted a plea for help because a program would run fine from the Laser C
> shell, but evnt_multi calls would not respond to the mouse, even though
> they caught keyboard activity. It turned out that the program would also
> run fine under gulam. But not the desktop. This program was a .ttp that
> called appl_init and used vdi calls. I renamed it to .prg and voila!,
> it now runs ok from the desktop. The mouse is now caught by evnt_multi.
> 
> Since my program is a port from unix and wants a parameter string, I
> think I'll just create a .ttp front end to pick up the parameters and
> shel_write them, then Pexec the .prg . Is there a better way?

If you run it from a shell just leave it named .prg.
A program doesnt have to be named .ttp to take parameters. You can pass
them anyway. This is only difficult if you try to do it from the desktop.

Cheers, PMH
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