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From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE)
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Subject: Re: Using the amiga from the serial port
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Date: 10 Dec 90 23:06:59 GMT
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In article <1132@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk> andy@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Andy 
Colebourne) writes:
> It would be nice to control a shell so that all the functions like 
aliasing 
> could be used.
> 
> Any help/code/suggestions would be very welcome!!

                Well what you want to do is:

mount aux:
newshell aux:

               And here we go ! You have a shell on your terminal, isn't 
that great ?!?

 Oh, by the way, you'll soon see it's not that great, since every time a 
requester pops-up you loose control of your shell from the terminal (try 
to do leftA-V from a terminal (-:), so you'll go to the next step which is 
to write a small program to poke a -1L in the PrWindowPtr (I believe it's 
the name of the struct member, I'm doing this from memory it was 6 months 
ago, sorry if I'm wrong check with the definition of struct Process in the 
include files) field of the Process structure of your shell process. (to 
Find this process structure, use FindTask(0L) since the process structure 
begins with the task struct). It should be at offset 40 from the 
FindTask(0) if you're doing it in a special language that doesn't know 
about structs.

                   So, once you have -1 in this field, requesters will 
allways be canceled. But it's not enough since it's very easy to launch a 
program that opens a Window. But that's another story.

           JNM

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