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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Full Screen Shell
Message-ID: <19128@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 23:42:50 GMT
References: <3265@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991Feb19.143219.15684@tridom.uucp>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Feb19.143219.15684@tridom.uucp> lkollar@tridom.UUCP (Larry Kollar (Operations)) writes:
>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


Under 2.02 Shell you can use the backticks, ie

newshell "con:0/0/`screensize`/title"

and the screensize program will execute and output gets added to
the command line.

Also, the 2.02 con-handler does a max operation on your window
parameters, so 

 con://2000/2000/Title

will generally give you a full screen window under 2.0; unless
you are using an unusual monitor.

You can even (by copying the shell project icon and adding the
WINDOW= tooltype) make shell window icons for all occasions.


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

			andy



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