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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Making Macterminal Download in Background
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Date: 20 Apr 88 07:51:56 GMT
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Summary: Use ResEdit to add multifinder comaptibility to Macterminal 2.2

Here's how to modify Macterminal 2.2 to do uploads and downloads
in background under multifinder:

1.) Work on a copy of MacTerminal.

2.) Under Multifinder, do a Get Info on Macterminal and slightly change
the suggested space allocation. This will guarantee that MacTerminal has 
a SIZE resource.

3.) Use ResEdit. Turn on the "can background" bit in MacTerminal's 
Type='SIZE' Id='-1' resource:

(Here are the bit assignments from the top down.)
  1=save screen, 
  2=suspend/resume, 
  3=optionswich,
  4=can background <-- (turn this one on)

Open the resource Type='DLOG' Id='5101'.  Use the DLOG menu, select
"Show as text". and changed the "ProcId" field to '3'.  (This is
because it was 1, and MultiFinder won't swap out if the top window is
a ProcId=1.)


The best way to swap out under MultiFinder during a download/upload is
by clicking on the application icon at the far right of the menu bar.

I find it very handy to open a text editor window, and compose my 
next messsage while MacTerminal is downloading/uploading.

Caution: If you lock out MacTerminal for longer than a few seconds, it
will abort the upload/download.
You can lock it out by long compiles or by
clicking and holding the mouse, since MultiFinder won't let background 
tasks run while the Mac is trying to smoothly animate mouse drags.
However, it is so nice to have even this level of multi-finder
compatibility.

--- David Phillip Oster            --When you asked me to live in sin with you
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --I didn't know you meant sloth.
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