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From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Shell zoom button
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.051414.13851@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 05:14:14 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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In article <1991Apr1.185012.2973@contact.uucp> slaurel@contact.uucp (David Maxwell) writes:
>In <11695.27f37194@zeus.unomaha.edu> bacon@zeus.unomaha.edu (Infomaniac) writes:
>
>>Such a program has been around for several years now - ConMan1.3.  ConMan will 
>>shrink the window with one of the F(1-3) keys and expand them back with another 
>>F(1-3) key.  This is just one small example of the versatility of ConMan.  
>>There are many other uses and applications with it, but I'm not that terribly 
>>well versed with it.  I only recently installed it on my WB with AShell. 
>
>Incidentally, I just did the same. I've been a conman lover from the beginning,
>and just installed the AShell. I also have Mymenu instaled, which I find
>extremely useful, but now here's the catch. One more program that I like, LS,
>(Ala Justin V. McCormick) has started to crash my system. If I open an AShell
>from Mymenu and execute ls as the first command (My default drive, SYS: is DH0: a 40M Conner on ICD controller) I get the good old Disk Corrupt requestor.
>GOMF will let me whap the requestor and shell, but none of my drives will
>respond, workbench doesn't update etc...
>If on the other hand, I start an AShell from a CLI (opened via workbench, or
>opened from an AShell (opened via mymenu) then LS works fine. My only 
>remaining suspect is that I'm forcing the size of the AShell with con:.
>But a quick experiment (TGFM (That's MULTITASKING, not MONDAYS)) seems to 
>feel that that's not the problem.
>	Any suggestions welcomed.

Here is a suggestion:  get a new version of ls.
The original ls by Justin has a few bugs (including the one related
to a startup shell not having a non-zero CurrentDirectory field upon
startup).  ls-4.1ljr (on ab20 as ls-4.1ljr) does not have this problem
and knows how to deal with the situation (san crash :-).

>							David Maxwell
>							slaurel@contact

Loren J. Rittle
-- 
``NewTek stated that the Toaster  *would*  *not*  be made to directly support
  the Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' --- A scene at
  the recent MacExpo.  Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so
  worried about one little Amiga device... Loren J. Rittle  l-rittle@uiuc.edu