Short: Open public screen with shell Author: Kyzer/CSG Uploader: Kyzer/CSG Type: util/cli scrsh is a rewrite of my fabled 'screen shell' command - the tool which led me to write the almighty 'ShellScr'. First a little history. Around October 1992, I discovered I'd be getting an Amiga for Xmas. So I started getting the Amiga Format magazine, which happened to give away Devpac 2 (the Hisoft editor, assembler and debugger). Some time later, I started getting the Amiga Shopper magazine, which went on in the coding bits about the 'RKRMs'. So I got these out of the library and tried all this 'cool new stuff' from the Libraries RKM about public screens. Given that I wanted a shell on a seperate screen from Devpac (which is WB screen only). So scrsh was born some time around mid 1994. However, scrsh never tested if anything went wrong, and it was fixed to 640x256 PAL Hires with the CON: window. Many years later, with an A1200, I started to realise that this needed updating, so I started to write 'ShellScr' in Amiga E instead of assembler. Nowadays, ShellScr is a very powerful, flexible and easy to use public screen shell opener. It works with any screen mode, any font, any shell, and almost any language. You can get ShellScr from Aminet as util/shell/ShellScr.lha However, all those options and features have made ShellScr fat. It's just under 10Kb, which for something that opens a shell is quite a bit. So - presenting a new version of scrsh. Just imagine ShellScr with no options. It opens a shell on a public screen and becomes the default screen. It uses your current default screen to base its choices on. It's 540 bytes. What more could you want? Usage: Run <>NIL: scrsh When you close the shell and all other windows on the screen, it goes away. If this fails, use the Break command on scrsh. Requires 2.0 or better. **************************************************************************** * THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF THE "KYZER'S SMALLS" COLLECTION * * The KyzSmlClxn is a set of small yet useful commands. * * * * Commands are installed by copying them to your C: directory. * * Source is included, and is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. * * * * Email Kyzer/CSG or see the website at http://zap.to/kyz * **************************************************************************** ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 540 453 16.1% 21-Feb-00 11:46:24 scrsh 4392 1816 58.6% 21-Feb-00 11:46:24 scrsh.asm 2603 1238 52.4% 21-Feb-00 11:46:24 scrsh.readme -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 7535 3507 53.4% 22-Feb-100 22:01:46 3 files