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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Amiga developer speaks, CLI tips, e
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 16:39:00 EDT
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>Why didn't Electronic Arts put PolyScope and SlideShow up as icons
>on their demo disk?  Do they want j. random user to drop down to
>the CLI, and type all that cryptic #%$#?
    no; at least according to my dealer, they want you to insert
the kaleidoscope disk INSTEAD OF the workbench disk.  it takes over
the same way workbench does.

>Tip:  ^O and ^N set the high bits on all characters, so that's why
>you get the screwy characters if you typed ^O to stop output, and then
>wondered what happened.  ^N turns it off again.  This is documented
>deep in a manual, but I figured it out using the Infinite Number Of
>Monkeys technique.
    me too.  now, can you tell me the XON character?  ^S stops output,
but ^Q doesn't restart it.  RETURN restarts, but you get a "bad command"
message later.  i've resorted to ^S and ^H, at least until i can 'port
"more".

>Found a bad bug in ed: I ran ed via "run ed foo.c", as so to have it
>as a windowed separate task.  I noticed that if I left the cursor on
>a line when I exitted via "*sa", the editor would erase the characters
>on that line, and then write the file out with the line missing.  I 
>couldn't get it to do this everytime, but beware...  Solution:  move
>the cursor to a blank line before exitting.
    does someone have dox for ed?  i used the monkey approach here too.
i've got (barely) enough to get by, but i need a lot more.  what's
"*(escape?)sa", anyway?  i use escape-x-escape to write&quit.  if nobody
has better info, i'll post the notes i've made.

>I've had the OS crash when I had the Demos running (line,box,dotty).
>They aren't very robust.  Otherwise, I've had no crashes from the
>OS, that I didn't write myself :-)
    i've seen several (>8) crashes, only one i wrote myself.

	wayne hamilton
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