USER question

[Fairlight]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:52:01PM -0800, Bill Campbell, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> I wrote a shim program that spawned two processes, similar to what
> communication programs like ckermit do, sitting between the x286 binary
> program and the terminal.  The processes communicated with shared memory
> with the process listening to Filepro intercepting the codes to reprogram
> function keys, updating the shared memory key map.  The process talking to
> the terminal and keyboard looked for function keys sent, mapping them to

That's something I've considered...a go-between program for USER that
handles both ends "separately".

> the appropriate DT-100 codes.  The only difficulty was that it tended to
> use up shared memory when people didn't log off properly so required
> manually clearing it.

Doesn't that usually require a reboot? :) I've seen fP 5.0.x and 5.6.x
(when 5.6 was new) not quite work well together and actually break the
shared memory segment and neither version would use it correctly after
that.  Only way it seemed to be clearable was with a reboot.  Might be
possible if you knew the exact memory range to clear though, but I didn't.

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