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- This is a very very simple program that just opens a one-bitplane
- screen to run your CLIs on. This is useful for folks who are
- using WorkBench 2.0 and have a 8- or 16-color WorkBench screen, but
- hate the scrolling and update speed when they use the CLI or Shell.
-
- It is easily solved by opening another screen and telling Intuition
- that it is a WorkBench type screen. Then when you pop open a CLI or
- other WorkBench application, if this screen is in front of the "real"
- WorkBench, the CLI or application will open on it.
-
- The default screen used is 640 X 400 with white text on a black
- background. However, you may force it to be any size you so desire
- by specifying the following parameters on the command line:
-
- -w# Width desired.
-
- -h# Height desired.
-
- -b# Background color, specified as three hex digits. (RGB)
-
- -t# Text color, specified as three hex digits. (RGB)
-
- These parameters may appear in any order, and are not case
- sensitive. So, if, for example, you wanted a medium resolution screen
- with yellow text on a blue background, you would enter
-
- cliscreen -w640 -h200 -b00F -tFF0
-
- All screen sizes are supported, except the new screen modes in
- WorkBench 2.0 (productivity, super-hires, etc.) (working on it).
- This program will run fine from 1.2 or 1.3, as well as 2.0.
-
- This program will automatically detach itself from the CLI it
- was run from, so there's no need for runback or any of that. Then
- when you want a shell on it, pop a shell up with the CLIScreen screen
- in front. When you're done, close the small window that says "Close
- to Exit", and it will close it all up, provided there are no other
- windows open on it, in which case it will just flash the screen at you.
-
- This program is hereby declared as public domain. Do whatever
- you want with it. (This also applies to the source code.)
- Enjoy.
-
- -- Robert Kesterson
-
-