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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Dos 2.0 Miscellanea (1)
Keywords: Shell,CLI,R-e
Message-ID: <14264@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 22:18:05 GMT
References: <1990Sep3.073322.13278@uncecs.edu> <6522@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <6522@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1990Sep3.073322.13278@uncecs.edu> urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>> cli on the system drawer of the SYSTEM2.0 window? If they call up the
>> same process then why are the icons labeled differently?
>
>I suspect it's a historical thing to avoid confusing folks.

One is a project (the shell) and the other is a tool (CLI) which
the shell project icon points too.  You can make copies of the project
icons, each with a different window size and position, so with
a couple clicks you can fill a window with shells.

>
>> 3. While in Amigashell, I entered the command:
>> list work:/uedit/uedit/private  where private is a directory, and got
>> the error message "no information for work:/uedit/uedit/private  : not
>> enough memory available" . I immediately checked memory with an avail
>  [and there was lots of RAM left]

The pattern match routines contain a rather simple error return...
if they couldn't build the pattern, they would return "out of memory"
whether or not you were actually out of memory.

		andy
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