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- History of TaskShell
-
- 1.00 - Handled basic screen I/O and keyboard. Special keys were hardwired to
- generate codes which were compatible with an ancient version of
- LineEditor and programs using my version of the UnixLib termcap file.
- Therefore, many things did not work.
-
- 1.10 - Re-wrote the keyboard handling code. Now emulates OS_Byte calls
- 221-228. This means that recent versions of LineEditor now work.
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- 1.20 - Re-wrote the screen handling code. Previously, it used OS_Byte 3 to
- disable the screen when inside Wimp_Poll. The code then trapped all
- OS_Byte 3 calls and vetted them to ensure that no other program
- enabled the screen. This was not a foolproof method of handling
- things. The new version does away with all that messing about and
- gets right down to the OS_WriteC vector. This should be foolproof.
-
- 1.21 - At the suggestion of Julian Wright, I re-wrote the startup code.
- Previously, it assumed that you wanted to go into mode 0 when
- entering the TaskShell command line. This is not what most of you
- lucky, lucky people with better machines want. TaskShell now starts
- in the same manner as ShellCli, i.e. it scrolls the desktop. I have
- added the ability to run a command from the TaskShell command line.
- So, to emulate the old behaviour, you can do
- TaskShell "echo <22><0>"
- RISC PC users can presumably do something similar to select their
- favourite text mode.
-