| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon | 
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! | 
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON | 
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 | 
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 1433 | 
| Total number of notes: | 10312 | 
I recently bought the Berkenmeyer MT C SHELL and so far I've gotten it to do precious little for me. I wanted to edit the login file and then create a command file to compile and link a 'C' program but I can't get my EMACS editor to run. I figured that the EMACS.PRG and EMACS.RC files had to be in some special directory but not knowing for sure which, I placed copies in every directory in the system. No luck. When I get the prompt I type EMACS, this crashes the system, leaving the undocumented error message: RTX Fatal Error Running: emacs.prg p_delete loop in exception PC 0002cd08 SR 2700 State: 0484 Pri: 10 IOFLAGS 0000 DTA: 0001e26 Drive: D Path: \USR\ROOT\ PID NAME CPU PRI PC STATE 00032608 ROOT 00:03 # 10 0002e30e in_dos Exec_wait 00036cd0 emacs.prg 00:00 # 10 0002cd08 Running in_dos Pexec 00036f2c csh.prg 00:15 # 10 0002e308 in_dos Pexec Exec 00037188 IDLE 00:12 # 0 0002cf0a Ready I'm reading Anderson & Anderson's book on the C Shell but I'm so new to it and the Berkenmeyer documentation is so sparce that I am stuck here. Can anyone help?
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| 197.1 | software under mt c shell | CIMBAD::POWERS | I Dream Of Wires - G. Numan | Mon Aug 15 1988 18:19 | 23 | 
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    re .0
    
         I too have "Beckemeyer"'s Mt C Shell.  I think it is a fairly
    good product, but I experienced the same problems you are now having
    not much software works under it.  This is mainly because the ST's
    operating system is so buggy, that a lot of software companies write
    their own workaround's.  David has published on usenet, and is avail.
    from his bbs, a list of do's, and dont's when it comes to writing
    software to be able to run under MT C shell.  I think even tacklebox
    ST even contains a section on do's and dont's.  There is not much
    else that can be done.  You will find, as you purchase more software,
    and get more PD stuff, that a lot of stuff, doesn't work at all
    with other stuff.  I've gone into this in other notes, so I won't
    here.  You might want to look for another version of emacs.  I do
    know that mark williams c comes with an emacs editor, and mark williams
    c works under the c shell.  I also know Jeff Lomicka has an emacs
    editor he has been working on, you might want to try his out.
    
    sorry, thats the best advice i can give
    
    Bill Powers
    
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| 197.2 | Getting Emacs to work under MT | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeff Lomicka | Tue Aug 16 1988 00:29 | 9 | 
| It could be failing because of some things I did in the latest ST versions of Microemacs 3.9e. Note that microemacs 3.9e to 3.9n is a GEM program. It only looks like a TOS program. If someone with the MT shell is willing to work with me for a few days, we should be able to get it to work. I would very much like to see the list of Do's and Don'ts. There's a few tricks pulled in 3.9e or 3.9n that would scare away most multiprocessing techniques. | |||||
| 197.3 | MT C shell info | CIMBAD::POWERS | I Dream Of Wires - G. Numan | Mon Aug 22 1988 11:21 | 16 | 
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    RE: .2
    
    Jeff,
    
    >If someone with the MT shell is willing to work with me for a few days,
    >we should be able to get it to work.  I would very much like to see the
    >list of Do's and Don'ts.
    
         I would be glad to work with you on MT C shell, I think I told you
    the other day when I was down visiting you, that I was moving to New
    Hampshire this coming weekend, and everything is all packed right now.
    When I get settled in, and get everything all unpacked, Ill stop by
    with the info, etc.
    
    Bill Powers
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| 197.4 | STAR::HEERMANCE | Return of the Crash Dumps from Hell | Thu Sep 15 1988 10:23 | 10 | |
|     I have gotten ME.PRG (uEMACS) to work under the MT-C shell.  My
    only complaint is that it doesn't return the screen colors back
    to what they were before it was run.  I should probably try the
    GEM prefix I run the editor.
    
    One gotcha I encountered with ME.PRG is when I edited a file
    which was write protected.  I couldn't exit the editor and no
    error message was returned.
    
    Martin H.
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