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Sorry for the cross-posting, but I think this blongs on csa2.com or csa2
at this point.

I take back, retract, renounce, etc. most of what I said above.  Someone
suggested I e-mail Intrec@genie.geis.com if I was having a problem.  So late
last night I did.  This morning I received a call from Greg Schaefer, the
pt3 programmer.  We did a lot of talking and testing.  He thought the GS
quitting problem was solvable.  (It was, just wait.)  And until this morning
in doing some testing before he called me, he wasn't aware of some printing
problems which neither of us know a solution for, yet.  The IIe problems
are a little harder to deal with.  He doesn't have a workstation card.
(Could Apple C. give him one?).  He suspects some memory conflict between PT3
and Appletalk in the aux memory LC area, but we don't know for sure.  He is
checking into the small problem I have with the Timemaster driver in 3.1 that
I didn't have any problem with pt3.0.

An hour later, he called back with a 1 byte patch to pt3.code0 so pt3.1
could quit, without killing Appletalk.  Hurray.  PT3.1 now works quite well
on a IIGS.  And one of the problems with the Appletalk card is that its
Pascal 1.1 firmware is broken  (technote on workstation card anomaly - the
status call doesn't work),  Apple's suggested work around won't work in
this particular case.  Other IIe workstation problems remained unsolved (and
may be insolvable).

So, none of the problems involved the interrupt handling code that Greg uses.
It is faster than Apple's, and Greg will continue to use it.  I'm sorry that
I blamed the interrupt code.   The solution was easy, and Greg promptly 
found it and fixed when he became aware of it.  I'm impressed, and PT3.1
remains the top of pack 8-bit communictions package, IMHO.

Later,

  --Steven Nelson                     steven-nelson@uiowa.edu