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From: lkollar@tridom.uucp (Larry Kollar (Operations))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Full Screen Shell
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.143219.15684@tridom.uucp>
Date: 19 Feb 91 14:32:19 GMT
References: <3265@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: lkollar@tridom.UUCP (Larry Kollar (Operations))
Organization: Tridom Corporation, Atlanta GA
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In article <3265@ux.acs.umn.edu> jrosnow@vx.acs.umn.edu writes:
>I was wondering how to have the shell open up so that it is the full size of
>the screen rather than opening it up and then having to resize it all of the
>time.  Can this be done?  How?

Several people have pointed out the "con:0/0/640/200/Title" thing.  I once
wrote a little program that would get the actual Workbench screen size &
return it as "640/200" or whatever.  Handy if you use ARP Shell, SKsh, or
another shell that supports "embedded" commands.  For example, the opening
line would be:

	> newshell con:0/0/$(screensize)/Title

The shell runs "screensize," then inserts the output in the command line
before executing the command.  This is nice for people who pass scripts
around, or for 2.0 users who can change screen size on the fly (I'm sure
*someone* will correct me if I'm wrong about that :-).

The code is very trivial; I could post it to c.b.a if anyone is interested.

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Larry Kollar	...!emory!tridom!lkollar / lkollar@tridom.uucp