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From: hsgj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Suggestion for 1.3 (or ...)
Message-ID: <3005@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 21:22:54 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.3005
Posted: Tue Nov 24 21:22:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 14:58:29 EST
References: <1106@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: hsgj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <1106@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Could you make the initial CLI window open up to NormalDisplayRows by
>NormalDisplayColumns?
>-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter

Two points, both related to the CLI:
1) What Peter suggested would be a good idea, but I just checked and
found out that NormalDisplayRows is NOT updated if you are in
interlace.  This is neither good nor bad; however, if you wanted your
initial CLI to open up to the full screen size, it should be like:
	width = ndcolumns;
	height = (lace == TRUE) ? ndrows * 2 : ndrows;
This would fix both morerows and having your wbench be interlaced
via preferences.

2) An annoying 'gotcha' in CON:.  Try this if you enjoy really nasty
non-gurus (eg it frogs up the amiga but you don't even get a RED box):
	1> COPY * CON:0/0/0/0/DeathTongue
Plainly it crashes because the window is of nil size.  Whose fault
is this?  Obviously the users, because of the ridiculous settings.
But really, for CON: to do a check on the validity of its window
arguments would be trivial.  This 'gotcha' caused me to lose about
14 hours worth of work.  You really do not want to hear the full,
gruesome story... [But if someone insists :-) Misery loves company]

So, just two minor suggestions for CON: (or CLI, whatever).  Thanks
for the patience to read this thing...

By the way, I hope the folks at CBM don't think I'm 'flaming' the
system by suggesting stuff.  I just figure, if you're rewriting some
stuff already, rewriting a few other lines here and there won't be
too much of a pain.

-- Dan Green

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