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From: johnr@netcom.com (John Rickenbrode)
Subject: Re: Creating a Smalltalk server
In-Reply-To: erik@dwg.dps.cos.eds.com's message of 30 Nov 1994 01:54:16 PDT
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Sender: johnr@netcom.com (John Rickenbrode)
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 19:15:00 GMT
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>display a launcher.  This will cause problems since on the server there is no
>windowing system when the server executes it's rc.local where this process will
>get started.

>Any help, hints, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

ParcPlace's support should have a filein which will turn off the
windowing system.  Or they did for VW 1.0.  

If you don't want to wait for PPS support:

Looking at an image, it looks like they've cleanup things up a bit in 2.0,
so you might be able to get away with changing Screen>>open: to just
return self new.  You won't have to close the old windows before saving,
although you will probably want to close all but the launcher.

You will also want to do something about Exception's default emergency
handler's use of NotifierViews.


-John Rickenbrode
johnr@netcom.com




