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From: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: fast xtals in AT / Sidekick (really about Turbo Lightning)
Message-ID: <59@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 12:09:38 EST
Article-I.D.: tekchips.59
Posted: Mon Feb 10 12:09:38 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 07:47:59 EST
References: <236@bnrmtv.UUCP> <645@steinmetz.UUCP> <147@sci.UUCP>
Reply-To: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
Lines: 28
Keywords: fast xtals, Sidekick

In article <147@sci.UUCP> raymund@sci.UUCP (Raymund Galvin) writes:
>In article <645@steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
>> .......
>> Since Sidekick also craps up the operation of DOS functions 6 and 7 (direct
>> read), I'm not too unhappy taking it out. 
>> .......
>> With Sidekick out, the values of ALL keys are passed back to the program.With
>> Sidekick, ^P toggles the printer, ^S stops output, ^Q starts output, and ^C
>> kills the program. Nobody ever used those keys in an editor, huh? 
>> .......
>> 	-bill davidsen
>> 
>I was bit by this FEATURE while writing a command line editor.  
>Unfortunately, I thought it was a DOS bug.
>
>Has anybody noticed similar problems with Borland's Turbo Lightning.
>How many DOS calls does it break?
>
> - Ray Galvin

After being bitten by this as well (and having to patch the editor program
to get it to work), I was pleasantly surprised to find that this problem
does not exist with the version 1.52A which I upgraded to so that I could
use Sidekick with an EGA.  I have found that sometimes with T.L. if I leave
one of its menus and hit control-C (for next screen) too quickly the program
(PC-Write in this case) aborts!  This could be a PC-Write bug, too.

Tom Almy