Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: more 1.4 wishes
Message-ID: <6132@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 89 15:25:18 GMT
References: <4Y3LOgy00WB7NFUmZh@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4Y3LOgy00WB7NFUmZh@andrew.cmu.edu> rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes:
>AUX: has some major problems too, for instance what happens when you get
>a requestor while using aux:?  Well you just go and click with the mouse...
>fine IF you happen to be at the amiga, but then why would you be using AUX:?
>Also I belive that if you try opening two cli's to AUX: you get strange
>results (I did with a beta version and haven't tried it with real 1.3 yet...)

The requester coming up on the window is a feature, not a problem...its
a message to the system operator that the remote terminal wants
to change a disk or use the printer or something :-)

That kind of operation would be difficult from a remote terminal.

Seriously, you can write a simple program (in C, assembler, possibly in
BASIC) to set the pr_WindowPtr of your process structure to -1, causing
all system requesters to not appear; instead an error message is
returned to the calling program.

AUX: opens (intentionally) the serial.device in shared mode.  This
is occasionally very useful.  If, for some reason, you forget,
and open 2 CLIs to AUX: just type

eennddccllii

(each shell is taking every other character)
-- 
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