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From: schanck@harmonica.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck)
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Subject: Microwaves, _video, & switchar
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Date: 29 Jan 89 23:24:11 GMT
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Three questions for the folks of netland:

1) Having just rearranged my apartment a bit, I find my microwave is now
very close to my system unit. Question is, can the output of the microwave
have an adverse effect on my data/hardware?

2) I asked about this before, but it was a while ago, and I did not get
a reply so I figured I would inquire again. Several months ago, somebody
mentioned a __video structure used internally by TC which when tweaked in
the proper way allowed for even faster video output than DIRECTVIDEO
alone. Could somebody post/email me this info?

3) Couple weeks ago I asked for some C code which would enable me to
set and retrieve the current switchar. I received several responses
(thanks to all!) and they work quite nicely. Thing is, I can't really
seem to see what the use is; even with my disk-manager software in use
and switchar set to '/', things work fine. (the disk manager is homebrew,
written in TC1.0/1.5/2.0) I didn't do any extensive testing, but
things all seem to work fine no matter what switchar is set to. So could
somebody post a write up of why you would change it, how it can be a
problem, and so on. Enquiring minds want to know....

Chris

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"I do not THINK in regular expressions, and I am not NP-complete!"
--- Christopher Schanck, occasional human being.
schanck@.cis.ohio-state.edu