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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Opening shells on another screen
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- In article <5JAN199315062062@sundog.caltech.edu> dg@sundog.caltech.edu (DALE GARY) writes:
- > I have a question about this, too. Here is what I know: the Workbench
- > 2.1/AmigaDOS 2.1 docs say it is possible to open a console on a public
- > screen by typing something like NEWSHELL CON:////SCREEN <pubscreenname>
- > where the slashes separate the usual width/height/position numbers.
- > However, I have not been able to get the SCREEN switch to work. It
- > says cannot open FROM file (meaning it is interpreting the name after the
- > blank as the FROM file name. I suspect the documentation is slightly
- > wrong, but I couldn't stumble on the right syntax. Does anybody know
- > how to do this?
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- Eliminate the space between SCREEN and <pubscreenname>.
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- That's right, run them together: SCREENMYPUBSCREEN
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