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From: john@viper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bug with French TOS ?
Message-ID: <989@viper.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 16:45:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: viper.989
Posted: Fri May 15 16:45:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 21:44:26 EDT
References: <457@inria.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
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Organization: DynaSoft Systems
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In article <457@inria.UUCP> poirot@inria.UUCP ( SPIT) writes:
 >
 > I would like to report a bug we have on many systems (at my office).I would
 >precise, we used 1040STF with French TOS. I don't know for my friends but I
 >use nite and the little clock in the upper right corner of the screen in the
 >AUTO folder. (I use GEMBOOT and HDBOOT too !).
 >
 >Well, what is the problem:
 >
 > Sometimes, it seems that the system is sending by itself (without any human
 >operation) a lot of ESC caracters. So at GEM desktop level, it reads the
 >contents of the disk relative to the current window (the one selected).
 > I have to press the ESC key (by myself) to stop it generating those unwanted
 >chars.
 >
 > I also notice, that before it begins to send those ESC chars, it send one
 >ESC and then after 3 or 4 seconds , send ESC without stopping.
 >
 > The problem didn't appear running UNITERM or INTERCOMM but mostly at Desktop
 >level.
 > 
 >
 > Has anyone encountered the same problem? Any solution ??
 >

  (big grin :)

  YES!  This is exactly the same problem I had for several months before
I managed to track it down.  The fix is to wait a week or so and then use
JClock instead of the corner clock you're now using.  (I wrote JClock
in the first place just to fix this problem and I will be posting it to
turner@imagen for sys.binarys.atari.st in about a week...)

  The problem is related to the priority order for keyboard packets and
the way most current corner clock programs are linked into the system.
JClock uses several tricks to avoid tying up the cpu for too long and
thus avoids the random [ESC] flood...

  BTW, pressing -any- key (the space bar is what I normaly used) will
cancel the flood.

  PS:  What is the name of the corner clock program you're now using 
and how do you set the date and time?  I'm curious because I'm trying 
to find out which already-existing programs have this problem.

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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