Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!agate!eris!spencer
From: spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Planning for Shell 20.8M
Message-ID: <6685@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 88 06:58:23 GMT
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Reply-To: spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
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Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) wrote:
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...I have two things I'd like to see.
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...	6. "Seperate input and output windows". Like Apollo's.
...	The bottom line is the input window, and there is a horizontal
...	line painted above it. All output goes to the window above
...	the input line. Input is typed into the input window
...	and the commands "stack up" as the horizontal line
...	is moved up:

I am sure that Pete Goodeve will comment on his Sili(con:) program, that
has a very similar user interface so the one you discribe.  It opens a 
window in the upper right the bottom line of which is the current command,
above that (seperated by a line) are all the previous commands, and then
the original CLI window takes care of output in almost exactly the way you
mentioned.  Additional advantages include the ability to click on commands
in the history list to re-execute them, and clicking and editing commands.

The thing I don't like, which must apply to yours also, is how do you stop
scrolling.  On the single command line I can type a space and boom! no more
output until *I* say.  What does the Apollo do?
...
...Just an idea.
...                          richard@gryphon.CTS.COM 

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