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From: upl@puff.WISC.EDU (Future Unix Gurus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shells.
Message-ID: <726@puff.WISC.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 19:42:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 19:42:12 1987
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In article <69@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:

> 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.
>
 I love conamn too. You neglected to mention that, since it is a replacement
 console-handler RATHER than a replacement cli, you get these functions
 auto-magicly in ANY console window, even ones opened by application
 programs. (I open a console window for debugging, and conman makes it a
 real pleasure).

 There IS a minor gotcha in conman, though. Have you tried doing a "more"
 from a conman cli? I replaced type (pretty useless) with more from the
 extras disk. Problem: Under conman, running more just returns a
 "not enough memory error". I have 1.5meg! I refuse to believe that
 conman takes 1meg+ !!! (Actually, I KNOW it doesn't because I checked with
 sysmon). Looks to me like more is assuming something about its environment
 it shouldn't, as everything else I've tried runs fine. Anybody have any
 suggestions out there? Most of what I do with my extra cli window during
 programming is more-ing include files......

 Jeff Kesselman
 captain@uhura.cs.wisc.edu