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From: post@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (The Postman)
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Subject: Re: CLI window on new screen...
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Date: 1 Aug 89 17:24:09 GMT
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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