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From: alderaan@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Signum anyone !
Message-ID: <1353@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 08:27:44 GMT
References: <8809091325.AA11358@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <8809091325.AA11358@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, PRAKASH@SUVM.BITNET ("Sriprakash Partha Sarathy [x-3071]") writes:
> Finally something was mentioned on Signum..
> Questions:
>         1. Has any one tried using a European (UK specifically) version of
>            Signum on an US version of the 1040 ?
>            A READ ERROR appears when it tries to put the menus up on the screen

Yes, I tried to use Signum II on a UK machine. The R/E you found is caused by
dirty direct-TOS-accesses of SIGNUM (especially the Editor (and its fast
scrolling) using seperate pure code routines (AES would be too slow)). So, the
only way is to boot the german RAM TOS from a system disk. But then, it works
fine, as I can say on my experiences. The only problem : you must also use a
german keyboard layout, because SIGMUN is working with scan codes, that is,
because of some triple-defined keys (ALT, CTRL). But if they sell the SIGNUM II 
package in U.S., it will run also on U.S. ROMs and U.S. keyboards, of course.

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