Re: MOD player comparisons

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <C5A3F9.46H@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
>taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao) writes:
>
>>    Shellplay is a shell EXE (imagine that!), so it runs on the text
>>screen.  Why would you try to multitask it with The Manager when you can
>>already do that with GNO?  I'm reply to you now with Tranzseven.MOD
>>playing the background!  :)
>
>Well how the hell do you do that? If you've got the MOD in the background,
>then it must be trashing up the screen.. (?), preventing you from coherently
>using any foreground tasks.

Just hold down ^Z after starting it.  All the screen thrashing will stop.

As a side-note, I wouldn't do communications w/ShellPlay playing at greater
than 1200 baud or so; I got massive character loss on my system (Zip 7/8, 
direct serial ISN hookup) at higher speeds, and Rich Wifall (TWGS/SupraFAX)
had similar results.




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