Re: II Not Disturb

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net>]

On 1 Jan 2003 18:10:22 -0800, warnken@mother.com (Sandra Warnken)
wrote:

>If you have a current upgrade of Spectrum you don't need it.  

You may not need it to use Spectrum if you are also using Ewen's
upgrade to the Desktop Alarm NDA because he added code to Spectrum and
Desktop Alarm to let them talk to each other so that Spectrum can
disable the Desktop Alarm NDA and use its own routine instead.
However, other things can benefit from II Not Distrub being installed
as well.  Especially communications programs including Marinetti.

The big problem that II Not Disturb fixes is that when you ask for the
time using the IIgs Toolbox, interrupts are locked out for a
relatively long time.  II Not Disturb patches out that call with one
that works faster and doesn't lock out interrupts for as long.  This
means you will have less chance of losing incoming characters over the
serial port if you have a menu bar clock or something else that calls
that particular routine regularly.

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