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From: GIUSTI@S37.Prime.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: CLI I/O help needed...
Message-ID: <387100015@S37.Prime.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 90 12:53:00 GMT
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Nf-From: S37.Prime.COM!GIUSTI    Apr 11 12:53:00 1990



A quick, humble question for the Amiga Guru Netters:

I'm trying to write a simple program that is to be invoked at the CLI
level.  Its purpose is to display to the CLI screen formatted information
about the current directory.  My question, what is the best "legal" way
of accessing the CLI window for formatted text output?  I want to avoid
using "printf" (this is an exercise in Amigados!), and I have to be able
to determine current CLI screen size in order to format the text properly.

I've noticed the amigados Process structure has a pointer to a Console
Task.  This appears to be what I am looking for, but I don't know how
to get at the console through this pointer.  How can I use the
console device I/O given this pointer?

Thanks

Ken Giusti (Giusti@S37.prime.com)
"Don't try to keep up with the Joneses,
rather, try to make them sink to your own level."