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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: TYpeahead implementations (Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...))
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Date: 23 Jan 91 02:00:01 GMT
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Quoted from <1991Jan21.191728.27166@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> by jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka):
> The one thing missing is a way to cancel input, after hittin
> return, but before the shell (or whatever) reads it in.

    Conman can do this. Hitting ^Z clears the typeahead buffer. Conman
    is a recommended CLI enhancement. So is WShell... :)

> The worst is MSDOS, which ignores ctrl-s if you have typed any
> other characters ahead of it.

    The Pause key works though. Less convenient to use on the keyboard
    I've got at work, but so it goes. The worst thing about MS-DOS in
    this respect is that the buffer is so small. One nice thing is
    that one can type ahead while an application is loading (due to
    good olde single-tasking), and have the keystrokes go to that
    application. Maybe not so important on the Amiga, where applications
    do less spawning around to fit into small amounts of memory.

    One can always write a script too, with ScripIt or whatever.
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