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From: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MWC msh questions
Message-ID: <1796@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 18:14:55 EST
Article-I.D.: chinet.1796
Posted: Fri Oct 30 18:14:55 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 05:53:32 EST
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Reply-To: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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Summary: some answers

In article <8710292106.AA05922@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> U00177@HASARA5.BITNET writes:
>MWC shell questions.
>
[ preliminary comments removed ]
>Some things doesn't work:
>
>Typing:  "set in" (no  quotes  of course)  without .bin or .cmd
>         bombs (2 quick bombs) the program and leaves me with a
>         reverse-video  desktop.  Is  this  a  bug  or can I do
>         something about it ? (perhaps I can also do something
>         about the bug)
Unfortunatly, this is a bug in msh, which is fixed in a future version.
The reverse video desktop is because the pallete is changed in PROFILE
and when msh bombs out, POSTFILE is not interpreted.  There are several
other things that can be used in "set in <foo>", but this is not a bug
that you can fix without sources to msh.
>Using :  Function and cursor keys make msh exit. Can I redefine
>         these  keys, and let them show something else than ~@.
>         By the  way,  the redefining should only work for msh.
>         I would like to use the cursor keys when I edit files.
Sorry, there is no way that msh can currently read function keys.
The reason for the exit from msh is that Cconrs() (a gemdos function)
returns a null for all non-ascii keys, and the file reading routine
in msh interprets this as an EOF.  Work is underway to make reading
from the terminal different than reading from a file thus allowing
this sort of thing.  It does require some restructuring of the I/O
routines used by the shell.  The redefining would only be for msh,
since msh does not install any system routine filters.
>
>Help me out please. ?
I Hope this has helped.
>
>Wim Schaasberg (U00177@HASARA5.BITNET)
>
[ signature quote by Ogden Nash omitted. ]

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