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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Creating a CLI
Message-ID: <186@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 89 21:20:54 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <149@dunkirk.DKK> will1990@dunkirk.DKK (The phone Cops) writes:
>Being a one drive user, I am trying to create a disk that will boot on
>its own, run a vt100 emulator (handshake) from icon, and be able
>to open a CLI (or shell, whatever) for disk activity... such as
>unarcing and copying, etc.
>
>Simple task, right....?
>So I get everything working fine, having all the neccessary libs, devs
>and handlers, etc. I try to get a CLI, first by copying it over(including)
>s:CLi-STartup, and everything that even looked like it was neccassary..
>But when I run it(double click the icon), it opens a CLI window for
>a split second and closes it up again.  I've even tried using the WB1.2
>prefs to "turn on a CLI" (1.3 doesn't have this feature), assigning C:
>, and everything I can Think of.
>
>I cannot understand what I'm doing wrong, any suggestions?

     I had the same thing happen to me one time when creating a
Workbench disk, so I put files back one at a time until it started
working again.  The mystery file is RUN.  It seems you need RUN to
open a CLI.  Try adding RUN to the C: directory of your new boot disk
and everything should work fine.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
My Amiga IS a PC!  It says "Personal Computer" right on the box!