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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS?  (*LONG*)
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Date: 12 Mar 89 00:29:53 GMT
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In <DEVEN.89Mar9113018@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu>, deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) writes:
>A big problem with CLI processes is that they are (quite arbitrarily)
>limited to 20.  That is too few; I want to implement concurrent pipes
>and simple backgrounding, and I don't want to have them all as CLI
>processes.

This doesn't really help with what you are trying to do, but it reminded me of
a little hack I meant to post a long time ago.

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Hi folks, here is a useful little utility that can be stuck at the top of your
startup-sequence.  Basically what it does is it patches a DOS variable to allow
you to have up to 255 cli's open at once.  Believe it or not, you are limited
to only 20 under standard AmigaDOS.  In running this, you will permanently lose
1k of ram, but so what.  Hope this is useful to you folks out there.
   Enjoy,
      A. Caleb Gattegno
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begin 777 maxcli
M```#\P`````````#``````````(````9`````P````$```/I````&2QX``0@E
M/```!``B/``!``!.KO\Z+@!G2$/Y`````'``3J[]V"I`)FT`(B83Y8-.KO]\E
M($,L&")'6(E3AB+84<[__")'(KP```#_Y(=.KO^()H=.KO^"3J[_=B)-3J[^6
M8DYU``````/L`````0````$````:`````````_(```/J`````V1O<RYL:6)RR
487)Y`````_(```/K`````0```_(:_
``
end

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I don't know if this breaks any rules (probably does), or if it's completely
safe (might not be), but when I tried it, it worked fine. I had 255 CLIs open,
each window resized to minimum as they opened. Things got very slow, and I
could almost hear the layers code screaming for mercy, but I managed to make it
to 255, close them all again, and keep running with no apparent side effects.

A. Caleb Gattegno is a member of our loosely knit DAS group. (Devil's Advocate
Software)

-larry


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