DMasterson@cup.portal.com (David Scott Masterson) (08/29/89)
I have a small problem with Conman 1.3 that perhaps someone might recognize and give me a pointer on. I think I've installed all the prerequisite files and mounted all the consoles properly, but for some reason the history command tells me that the window is "not a Conman console". I'm using Wshell and the Conman came on the disk with it. I've installed the conhandler and the conhandler-library (in l: and libs:). All consoles that I use have console editting capabilities indicative of Conman (via the up arrow and down arrow, etc.). Push and Pop work, but History refuses. Anyone have ideas? Thanx David Masterson DMasterson@cup.portal.com
blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) (08/30/89)
From article <21671@cup.portal.com>, by DMasterson@cup.portal.com (David Scott Masterson): > I have a small problem with Conman 1.3 that perhaps someone might recognize > and give me a pointer on. I think I've installed all the prerequisite > files and mounted all the consoles properly, but for some reason the > history command tells me that the window is "not a Conman console". I'm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Your problem is an old version of "History" mixed in with the newer ConMan programs. I got bit by this myself a couple of months ago. I was sure I'd upgraded to the new stuff when I got ARexx 1.10, but I got exactly the same error message. Bill Hawes said that there was no known problem, and suggested I recheck my setup. Bingo! I had upgraded PART of the ConMan programs. My setup for command files is C: for the standard AmigaDOS (ARP actually) commands (and anything brain-dead enough to REQUIRE the C: directory), and C:USR (assigned to USR:) for everything I've added to the system. The idea was to make upgrading to new versions easier, but I'd installed History in both C: and USR:, and only updated one of them. Naturally the old History command was the first one in the search path. Just type "Which History" and you'll see the location of every "History" command in your search path. I'll bet you've got it in there at least twice. -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 Here: utah-cs!esunix!blgardne {ucbvax,allegra,decvax}!decwrl!esunix!blgardne There: uunet!iconsys!caeco!i-core!worsel!blaine (My Amiga running uucp) "Nobody will ever need more than 64K." "Nobody needs multitasking on a PC."