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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Dos 2.0 Miscellanea (1)
Summary: Some help...
Keywords: Shell,CLI,R-e
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.024933.27806@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 5 Sep 90 02:49:33 GMT
References: <1990Sep3.073322.13278@uncecs.edu>
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
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In article <1990Sep3.073322.13278@uncecs.edu> urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
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>1. What is the difference between the process invoked by the icon labeled
>Shell on the SYSTEM2.0 window and the process invoked by the icon labeled
>cli on the system drawer of the SYSTEM2.0 window? If they call up the
>same process then why are the icons labeled differently?
	Because there were 2 different names under 1.3, which did different
things. Now under 2.0 they are the same, but the 2 names were kept for people
who are used to using an icon named "CLI". (Did I read the intro manual
correctly?)
>2. If from the workbench I do a R-e (right amiga-e), I get a requestor
>that allows me to enter a cli command, for example: list ram:. This
>causes a workbench output window to open, to display the outpt of the
>command. Now the system allows me to type in this output window. But if
>I type is a command, for example: list df0:c nothing appears to happen.
>What I type seems to go into the bit bucket. Further a R-e does not open
	Right Amiga-e does not open a CLI window. It merely allows you to
enter one (1) command, and if the command sends output, it opens a
window which hangs around until you use the close gadget to get rid of it
(so you don't lose the results of the command). You can NOT type in further
commands in this window. If you want to do more than one command you should
open a new shell window.


				Dave