Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!caesar!blake!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!cpsc!post From: post@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (The Postman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CLI window on new screen... Message-ID: <1655@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Date: 1 Aug 89 17:24:09 GMT References: <[917]un.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP> <7486@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: news@calgary.UUCP Reply-To: post@vaxa.UUCP (The Postman) Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Lines: 26 In article <[917]un.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP> tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes: >I have been working on this one for a while also ... > > >Can I , by hook or by crook, open or "tansplant) a CLI window onto another >screen?????? > >How would I , Why havent I seen it done???? Joe O'Hara from Commodore Electronics Ltd (Software QA) writes: >To do this, write a program that opens a new screen identified as WBENCHSCREEN >and then issue a NEWSHELL or NEWCLI command from within the program. The >program has to stick around until you signal in some way to close windows and >the screen. I've done some playing around with this since finding a program >by Sterling Brown some time back (Wbscreen, I think it was). Another way to do this is to use Matt Dillions 'mwb'. (Thanks Matt!) I use it all the time to create a 1 bit plane 'Other Workbench Screen'. I think there was also a program on a recent Fish Disk that opened up a full screen 80 column CLI. Check it out I guess. Lenny Post University of Calgary Member/Executive of AMUC (The AMiga Users of Calgary) Home of Vidwall '89