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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shells.
Message-ID: <69@esunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 23:36:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: esunix.69
Posted: Thu Apr 23 23:36:32 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Apr-87 04:48:30 EDT
References: <50@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu>
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in article <50@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu>, mjw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP says:
> 
> command line editing is not just
> a nice thing to have, it is an essential preventative for insanity (HINT
> for 1.3 or 2.0 or whatever :-]).

 Have you see Conman? I just got it from a local BBS last night, and I'm
already in love! Conman is alternate console handler that gives you VMS
style editing for the CLI (has some other neat features too). There are
three small files (total < 7K) that need to be placed in the L, LIBS and
C directories. Then just have your startup-sequence run Conman and the
CLI is now really useful.

 Having CLI editing and a command history gives me about all I need, the
shells are a bit of overkill for my uses. An interesting note: the
author (William Hawes) is plotting with the Software Distillery to make
this part of a "super-whiz-bang display manager". I can hardly wait!
 
 The files for Conman are quite small, anyone want them posted (if so,
where, is comp.binaries.amiga, or whatever, reliable)? 
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland
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