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From: gay%elde.epfl.ch@cunyvm.cuny.edu (David Gay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Using ARP 1.3 with ConMan
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Date: 3 May 89 12:44:54 GMT
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In article <1805@leah.albany.edu>, wfh58@leah.albany.edu (W Hammond) writes:
>                            ARP SHELL & CONMAN
>
>     The ARP Shell gravitates toward the Commodore-Amiga "newcon:" device
>for its console handling.  If you want the additional features furnished by
>W. Hawes' ConMan, it is not sufficient to run the "ConMan" program and
>mount the "pip:" device (although the latter step does enable the piping
>facility in the ARP Shell).
>
>     The quickest approach is to run the "ConMan" program (if it has not
>already been run) and then enter the command
>
>ashell WINDOW "con:0/0/640/200/ ARP Shell"
>
>If you just enter "ashell", the shell will come up under the Commodore
>"newcon:".  Putting the window definition above on the command line shifts
>from "newcon:" to "con:".  The previous running of "conman" converted
>"con:" from its native state to ConMan.  You can also alias "ashell" to
>stand for the command above, but that alias will only be recognized in
>a shell where it has been declared.

Actually, AShell will use CON: if NEWCON: isn't mounted. Thus, the simplest
method is simply not to mount NEWCON:.

>                                  -- Bill Hammond
>                                     Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
>518-442-4625                         SUNYA
>wfh58@leah.albany.edu                Albany, NY 12222

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