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From: youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (H. Bret Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Munch and VT100
Message-ID: <7580@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 16:08:27 GMT
References: <8654@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (H. Bret Young)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <8654@sunybcs.UUCP> ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (Peter Theobald) writes:
>
>I just downloaded munch. It's the program that gulps whenever a disk is
>inserted, and yuchs whenever a disk is removed. It won't work when I'm using
>VT100. They both want the audio.device. If I run VT100 first, munch exits
>with the message: 'can't open audio device.' If I run munch first, VT100
>somehow disables munch (or at least it's sound).
>	I thought there was supposed to be more than 1 channel on the audio
>device. Are all programs 'hogs' with the audio device? Is there any way to
>have these programs share? Is there no end to my questions?
>	-Pete
>
>
>Peter Theobald				SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
>internet: ugpete@cs.buffalo.edu		bitnet: ugpete@sunybcs.BITNET
>uucp: ..!{ames,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!ugpete
>csnet:	ugpete@buffalo.CSNET

When I first heard about muncho I was excited since this is just the
kind of neat thing my computer should be doing. I then read the documentation
and was disappointed to learn that the program fails to release all of
its memory when killed (my test showed it stole 9048 bytes each time).
Now I know that you probably would not kill a program like this but if
you did it would be to temporarily release some memory (at least that's
why I would do it). If this was the case then I don't want 9K hanging
around. This problem and the one mentioned in the included article
has prompted my posting.

Anyway, to the point of this article.

I want to run this program but not in its current state (I also run vt100
at times). So, is it possible to get the source for this ??
I don't remember the authors name at the moment and wanted to ask
before I forgot about it. If I can get the source I will try to fix these
problems if I can find the time. If not then I thank the author for the
idea and I will write a version for myself sometime.

				Bret

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