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From: andy@amiga.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Catch-22
Message-ID: <1497@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 11:56:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1497
Posted: Fri Aug 29 11:56:18 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 30-Aug-86 07:59:44 EDT
References: <3026@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@skipper.UUCP (andy finkel)
Organization: Commodore Business Machines, 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA 19380
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Keywords: arrrrg...

In article <3026@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> gary@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) writes:
>[Eat thi
>
>I found myself in a catch-22 situation today while editing away on my Amiga.
>While editing away using C/A's version of MicroEMACS I decided to spawn a
>CLI to search for something.  So, a full screen sized CLI appeared on my
>Workbench screen.  I tried a simple command and got an "insufficient free
>store" error message.  Uh-oh.  So I tried ENDCLI.  No go.  "No problem,"
>I thought, "I'll just go back to EMACS, save my files and quit."  Well,
>to get to the EMACS screen, you must hit the "push behind" gadget on the
>Workbench screen;  but it was obscured by the full screen CLI window.  Ok,
>shrink the window.  No way.  Push the window behind.  Can't push it behind
>the Workbench screen.  Drag the screen down.  Can't grab the Workbench
>"drag" gadget because it is obscured by the CLI window... ARRRRRRG...
>
>All that was left was to reboot, losing all of my files...
>

Actually, all you had to do was type 
LEFT-AMIGA n     to bring the workbench screen to the front
and
LEFT-AMIGA m    to bring the workbench to the back.

In your case, the LEFT-AMIGA m  would have made your emacs
pop back to the front. 

(Intro to Amiga, page 4-23)


By the way, did it make sense for the insufficient free store
message at that point ?  Was enough going on to make it seem likely ?
Did microemacs warn you at any point about "can't allocate..."

Anyone else have problems like that ?

			andy finkel



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