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From: janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Using ARP 1.3 with ConMan
Summary: And it can be done still easier...
Keywords: ARP Arp arp ConMan CONMAN conman
Message-ID: <440@wn2.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 3 May 89 11:12:56 GMT
References: <1805@leah.Albany.Edu>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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In article <1805@leah.Albany.Edu>, wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (W Hammond) writes:
|        ARP Release 1.3 -- Some Issues Not Fully Covered in the Docs
| [This stuff will be obvious to some of you, but I am posting it since it
| took ME some time to straighten it out.]
| 
|                             ARP SHELL & CONMAN
| 
|      The ARP Shell gravitates toward the Commodore-Amiga "newcon:" device
| for its console handling.
...
|      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"
[more methods using fake NEWCON:s, CNC:s, aliases, etc omitted]

The really most simple thing to do is

1. Forget NEWCON:. Don't mount it; even delete it from your Mountlist.
2. Run ConMan.
3. Run Ashell. It apparently defaults to CON: if NEWCON: is not
   mounted.

This works for me.

Actually, I _do_ supply a full CON: name for Ashell, but only to get
a full screen sized window. You know, PAL + MoreRows make a 640x200
window look really silly. But I use NewShell with no parameters
and no trouble.

|                                   -- Bill Hammond

-Olaf Seibert (using Jan's account)