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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian Reschke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re:  GEMINI
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Date: 9 Mar 90 08:05:24 GMT
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STJLHI33%wooster.bitnet@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU writes:
> GEMINI crashed on me the first time I tried to run it (two bombs). After
> running shell0 it worked fine.  Since then it has worked whether I run shell0
> or not.  Would someone explain just what shell0 does?
shell0 clears shell_p (don't you have shell0.c). In GEMINI 1.1 this isn't
really necessary, because shell_p is reset on reset.

>
> Overall, GEMINI has just about everything I've been wishing for in a graphic
> shell.  Kudos by the ton.  I have encountered three problems that are slightly
> irritating.
>
>         1.  If the mouse cursor is on the menu bar when exiting from the
> shell the mouse starts leaving crud all over the place
Was a problem in GEMINI 1.0 but should be fixed in 1.1.

>         2.  I think I don't have it configured quite right, since I get a "thi
> application could not find file" when I quit back to the (standard, boring)
> desktop.
Copy EXIT.PRG into $HOME (BTW: what files did you get? The original distri-
bution includes exit.prg and exit.c).

>         5.  Is it possible to create your own custom icons for GEMINI?  This i
> probably in the dox, but I don't know German.
Get an resource construction set and change geminiic.rsc. Thats all.


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