Re: ECLIPSE

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (greg berigan)]

szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes:
>greg berigan <gberigan@cse.unl.edu> wrote:

>>I just extrapolated from a problem I had with METAL.  For a long time I
>>couldn't get METAL to shutdown without having to hit control-reset.
>>This of course caused various reserved-memory problems, cutting my
>>ProTERM scrollback to under 20K eventually.  It came to a point where I
>>was just going to wait for it to quit.  Looking for something to do
>>while I waited, I saw my printer offline, put it online, and METAL quit
>>immediately.
>>
>>Strange bug, but there must be a reason for it, right?

>What version of Metal you using?

Currently I'm using version 1.09.01 which I got from the FTP site.
(Contrary to popular opinion, version 1.09.02 is NOT in the met.qwikstart
archive; it's been 1.09.01 since Nov. 7th at least.)  As I can't run a
board from a dorm room (Call Waiting) I haven't been using it much
lately.

The requirement of METAL that, if a printer driver is selected, the
printer must be either off or both on and online has been in the code
for a long time.  Perhaps it is just a quirk of my system (post-Woz
pre-01 IIgs upgraded to ROM 01).

Haven't had it hang in a long time, but then I haven't been leaving my
printer on and offline.

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gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)

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