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Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:57:53 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Light @ the end of the Trap E tunnel (?)

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In <3D485738.D3473B38@pacbell.net>, on 07/31/02
at 12:31 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>O.K., will do. I hope this is not one of those that writes a GIGANTIC
>file, and you have to take preventive measures to keep it from
>overwriting a partition . . . . Some messages on the newsgroups

Did anyone ever tell you that you complain a lot? :-)

>mentioned a method that writes a dump to one or two diskettes.

Sounds familar (especially since I wrote it).

>Actually, you can and I did, for a couple weeks. How stable it all was,
>we may clearly have reason to doubt.

Oh well. The Process Commander driver gives a much more distinct
indication. It traps during boot up. This also avoids long sessions with
chkdsk.

>I think we can make a wild guess. ;-) I'm still not clear on how a
>kbd driver springs the Trap when I click on a DOS or eCS session *with
>the Mouse*, but maybe it's just a few paces down the road, hardware-wise.

Nothing to do with hardware. It's all about software. kbdbase.sys talks
to the kernel and kbdbase.sys talks to vkbd.sys. Everyone needs to use
the same language. The old CAD kbdbase.sys and PC kbdbase.sys don't talk
this language.

>I thought they were more different than that, but maybe not. I sort of

The details may differ, but the functions have to be the same. There's
only one place to implement this type of keyboard handling.

>miss WatchCat, and was fully prepared to switch back to that instead, had
>this situation not turned the corner.

As I've said before, one of these days, I need to evaluate CAD.

Steven

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