Re: toswin II 2.1

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Katherine L Ellis wrote:

> >Use "Start shell" instead, or launch /bin/login and log on.
> yeah use Start shell will run Naes, great ;)

Ahh, you have N.AES installed as a login-shell. That makes things a
bit trickier. I just let init start it directly, I've got plenty of
RAM anyway.

> login? hm is that an explanation? or a workaround?

When I need a shell other than root I just starts /bin/login and log
in. This won't work with the N.AES-user ofcourse, but fine with the
rest (e.g. root which I guess is what you need). Starting the shell
directly has never worked properly here, I don't know why but I guess
there's something that has to be set up by init?

> >> PS: you sure that toswin can't be faster? coz I mean it is pretty slow
> >
> >It's quite fast on my AB+Nova Falcon, but I see what you mean. I guess
> >it's possible to optimize the VT-emulator and paint-code, but it'll
> >probably be one helluva job :-)
> 
> duh! I would hope so that it is quite fast on an AB card. Who would
> have thunk? ;)

Well, it's not that much faster than on a regular Falcon, e.g.
scrolling is pretty slow.


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