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From: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Change Dir bug in VT100 2.8a? Or maybe it is MyMenu?
Keywords: VT100 MyMenu Bug
Message-ID: <804@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>
Date: 3 Jun 89 00:09:11 GMT
References: <6225@cognos.UUCP> <746@solaria.csun.edu> <7557@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Reply-To: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <7557@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) writes:
->In article <746@solaria.csun.edu> ecphssrw@winston.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes:
->>In article <6225@cognos.UUCP>, halo@cognos (Hal O'Connell) writes:
->>>
->>>If you have a
->>>VT100 entry in the MyMenu configuration file and you start VT100, then try
->>>...(deleted VT100 problem, basically it hangs doing a dir change)
->>
->>Any program, including VT100, which does anything like a directory
-> ^^^
->>change, will only work if it is started in a known way;  for VT100,
->>this is either from Workbench via icon selection or from a CLI
->>by typing "vt100."  If you use a hack like MyMenu, all bets are off.
->>--
->>Steve Walton
->
->Not *ANY* program Steve, I use MyMenu extensively (at least until 1.4, right
->Commodore-Amiga!!!!!  Hint Hint...) and VT100 is the only one that I have
->that hangs, I have one that uses ARP requesters to change between drives/sub-
->directories and it does NOT hang, ...

Interesting.  Since I don't use MyMenu I haven't seen this problem.  If
*anyone* can shed some light on the subject, please let me know and I'll
fix it in 2.9.

I've wrestled with using the ARP facilities but don't wanna force folks to
use ARP if they don't wanna.  I could put in conditionals so it becomes an
option at the user's discretion but I don't like doing that if I can help
it (the AREXX code in 2.9 is conditional but, as far as I can tell,
that's unavoidable).  When 1.4 comes out this should all be moot, anyway.

->it looks like VT100 2.8 (which I can GURU also at 'will'...)

Have you tried 2.8A (the patch version)?  There were some "interesting"
quirks in 2.8 that were fixed with the patches (like it would try to free
a buffer that it hadn't allocated during kermit transfers).  2.8A is more
reliable but will probably not solve the problem that you're having with
MyMenu.

->                                  David C. Powell
->*-David Powell :ARPA: aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu--------------------------*
->| \/ President :UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!aegnor       |  
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