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From: miner@dino.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Just the facts, maam. (Yes, more incorrect facts!)
Message-ID: <1967@dino.ulowell.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 88 03:56:22 GMT
References: <900@nuchat.UUCP> <1961@dino.ulowell.edu> <1816@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: miner@dino.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner)
Organization: University of Lowell Productivity Center, Lowell MA.
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In article <1816@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1961@dino.ulowell.edu>, miner@ulowell.UUCP writes:
>> If you looked at Bill Hawes programs you would see that he preaches and
>> follows this same philosophy.
>
>Well, ConMan doesn't. I used it for a few days and got totally disgusted with
>it.It doesn't fit well into the Amiga: it should have a new name, for example,
>rather than patching console.device. Than I could do a NewCLI CONMAN:... and
>still use the old console.device. Why would I want to? Well...

I give you credit for trying the program this time before commenting, but 
next time read the manual.  Direct from ConMan docs:

!Other Names.
!ConMan answers to several names in addition to "CON:".  You can define it 
!as the "CNC:" device by appending the included "mountlist" file to your 
!DEVS:mountlist and then issuing the command "mount CNC:".  The CNC: device
!can then be used just like a CON: window.  This allows the CON: definition 
!to be left intact, in case there are any incompatibilities between ConMan 
!and your existing software (but please let me know of any problems!)

>Somewhere on my list of things to do is a better console.device. 
Do you still feel this way?  

I hope you get to talk to Bill Hawes at DevCon, you have some very strong,
ill conceived ideas about what he is doing.  
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Rich miner@dino.ulowell.edu   617/452-5000x2693   UL-CPE Imaging Research Lab