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From: carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shells.
Message-ID: <1792@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 10:56:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1792
Posted: Thu Apr 30 10:56:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 14:40:21 EDT
References: <50@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu> <69@esunix.UUCP> <726@puff.WISC.EDU>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <726@puff.WISC.EDU> upl@puff.WISC.EDU (Future Unix Gurus) writes:
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> 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......

   Hey!  That's my More program you're picking on!   

   My code makes the perfectly valid assumption that a machine booted with
1.2 has a console handler which PROPERLY HANDLES ALL 1.2 CONSOLE PACKETS.

   Under the REAL 1.2 AmigaDOS console handler, the ACTION_DISKINFO and
ACTION_SCREEN_MODE packets are supported and ALWAYS return DOSTRUE (-1L).
So, with the real 1.2 console handler, my packet-sending routine could
only fail if there was NOT ENOUGH MEMORY to allocate the needed structures.

   The current version of Conman was not fully/properly supporting these
packets and the author is correcting this problem.

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