Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Switching to NewShell .. Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 89 19:49:58 GMT References: <8903090702.AA22197@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>, <46187@linus.UUCP> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 45 In-Reply-To: <46187@linus.UUCP> eachus@mbunix.mitre.org (Robert Eachus) writes: > Within a week of getting WB 1.3 I discovered that it is > relatively easy to use ConMan in place of NewCon: with the CA Shell, > and I have been doing it ever since. You just have to invoke it with > "CON:0/0/..." either on the command line or in the Shell.info (or in > DMouse). Since alias and Startup-Sequence can be used to do this > automatically, I did it once then forgot about it. A better way to use the C-A Shell with Conman is to replace the entry for NEWCON: in your Mountlist with the following: NEWCON: Handler = L:ConHandler StackSize = 600 Priority = 5 GlobVec = 0 # Now any reference to NEWCON: will get you a Conman console handler instead. No need for aliases and funky commands. > > * lightning quick startup > > You can say that again with NewShell, Path, and Run in RAD:C, > DMouse takes less than a second to pop-up a shell window (and another By using the 1.3 RESIDENT command to make Path and Run resident, you will save both time (loading the file from RAD: takes additional time) and memory space (a copy in RAD: and an executing copy take up twice as much memory as just one copy). > I haven't found anything other than L:Shell-Seg and Execute that > need Resident, and I haven't checked whether it's just one of them. > Nothing needs to be made Resident, but if you're using the Shell it's probably a better choice than RAD:C. -- Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu / BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ "You just don't get off a spaceship and run." --Avon