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From: nordmark@spirit.nada.kth.se (Arne Nordmark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AShell problems
Summary: ConMan may cause the problems...
Keywords: ARP 1.3 shell
Message-ID: <916@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 23 Apr 89 07:52:13 GMT
References: <1535@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
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Reply-To: gno@stacken.kth.se (Gunnar Nordmark)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1535@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
>
>	I just started using ARP 1.3 last night.  While the new ARP Shell,
>AShell, has loads of really *GREAT* features (especially pipe syntax and
>environment variable support), I have put it aside because it crashes my
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>A1000 very often, sometimes even back to Kickstart.

Give up easy eh? :-)

>	Have other people had this problem?

Well, I have had problems, but not with AShell (that seems to be absolutely
marvelous except for some strange behaviour with $variable substitution),
but with NEWCON. AShell wants NEWCON as default, and this may cause problems
with ConMan.

If you use the C= 1.3 MountList, and say
  Mount NEWCON:
you get the C= NEWCON period.

But if you use ConMan, you probably don't want to use the C= NEWCON device
at all, you want ConMan instead.
Now, ConMan 1.3 includes a MountList with lots of new entries, including PIP:
and NEWCON:. The new entry for NEWCON are supposed to refer to ConMan instead.

If you use the new mountlist and mount NEWCON the system seems to get
in big trouble when someone accesses NEWCON.

>(1)	I can't get DMouse to start up a new AShell when I press
>	<L-AMIGA><ESC>.  Although I have the line:
>
>			DMouse -C AShell

Try
  DMouse -C AShell CON:0/0/640/200/AShell
instead. If this doesn't help, the problem lies elsewhere.

I get around the problems with NEWCON by simply adding the line
  AssignDev NEWCON: CON:
to my startup script. This assigns the name NEWCON to CON (i.e. ConMan)
and seems to work in any weather.

As an A2000 user I also have the line
  AssignDev DF1: DF2:    ; Makes "DF1: an alias for "DF2:"

Great litle program, AssignDev! I got it from our local BBS.

  - Gunnar

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