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From: danscott@atari.UUCP (Dan Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: background file transfer
Message-ID: <1197@atari.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 16:39:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: atari.1197
References: <8810191945.AA07169@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA.
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in article <8810191945.AA07169@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, MAXG@SUVM.BITNET (gerry greenberg) says:
> X-Unparsable-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 88 15:20:42 LCL
> 
> Does anyone out there know a phone number or email address for Double
> Click Software?  They are the people who put together Shadow, which is
> marketed by The Catalog/Antic.  Or... does anyone know the actual
> authors of Shadow?  Finally, if someone is able to help me accomplish
> what I'd like to accomplish, then all of that info will be unnecessary:
> I am trying to do background file transfers in Kermit running the
> MagicSac on a 1meg 520ST.  I've tried to find out from Mac people
> whether this is possible on a 512K Mac, but the only answer I get is
> that you need to use Multifinder and 2Meg is recommended....That leaves
> me out of luck.  If Shadow can accomplish this for the ST, why can't it
> be done on the Mac?  Perhaps there is a PD program out there that will
> do this...maybe professional software companies never saw enough of a market
> for this, and now that Multifinder is here, they're thinking "why
> bother?".  Anyway, any help in this area will be greatly
> appreciated...reply to me at email address on bitnet or via the net.
> Thanks--Gerry


If the responce you are getting is that you need to use muli-finder then the
problem may not be with either the ST or the Magic Sac, but with the Apple
OS itself.  If the system is so rigid in its guidlines that you cannot
have an application running in the background then you may be out of luck.

The authors for Shadow are Paul Lee and Michael Vederman.  I don't have
their phone number or address.  You might consider contacting Antic Magazine
@ (415) 957-0886 and see if they have any information they can forward to you.


Dan Scott