From: Brian Sturk <bsturk AT nh DOT ultranet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Allegro, spawnl, and PMODE/DJ...problems??
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 19:57:36 -0500
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Thanks...I had been using 2.2. I think the keyboard interrupt wasn't getting
remapped/released according to a thread I followed in this newsgroup a while ago
(if my memory serves me right). I'll try upgrading to 3.0.  I appreciate your
time!

Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> >Can any Allegro guru help here?  I don't know enough about Allegro to
> >understand the implication of spawning a child program and calling
> >`allegro_exit' before that.
>
> I think that should be ok. The allegro_exit() routine will restore the
> original hardware state and unhook all IRQ's, so it should then be safe
> to spawn other programs (this was very buggy prior to Allegro 3.0,
> though, so it is important to use that and not v2.2).
>
> In fact it also seems ok to spawn programs without removing Allegro
> first as well, as in the case of the ex33 program that shells to a
> command prompt while leaving a MIDI file playing in the timer handler.
>
> I don't still have the original post, but to whoever was having these
> problems: check the ex33 program, and the shell edit command in the
> grabber, and see if these function correctly on your machine...
>
> --
> Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/
> "Pigs use it for a tambourine" - Frank Zappa



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