GIUSTI@S37.Prime.COM (04/11/90)
A quick, humble question for the Amiga Guru Netters: I'm trying to write a simple program that is to be invoked at the CLI level. Its purpose is to display to the CLI screen formatted information about the current directory. My question, what is the best "legal" way of accessing the CLI window for formatted text output? I want to avoid using "printf" (this is an exercise in Amigados!), and I have to be able to determine current CLI screen size in order to format the text properly. I've noticed the amigados Process structure has a pointer to a Console Task. This appears to be what I am looking for, but I don't know how to get at the console through this pointer. How can I use the console device I/O given this pointer? Thanks Ken Giusti (Giusti@S37.prime.com) "Don't try to keep up with the Joneses, rather, try to make them sink to your own level."
deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) (04/13/90)
On 11 Apr 90 12:53:00 GMT, GIUSTI@S37.Prime.COM said: GIUSTI> I'm trying to write a simple program that is to be invoked at GIUSTI> the CLI level. Its purpose is to display to the CLI screen GIUSTI> formatted information about the current directory. My GIUSTI> question, what is the best "legal" way of accessing the CLI GIUSTI> window for formatted text output? I want to avoid using GIUSTI> "printf" (this is an exercise in Amigados!), and I have to be GIUSTI> able to determine current CLI screen size in order to format GIUSTI> the text properly. You might try looking at the source to LS 3.1; it was posted recently. GIUSTI> I've noticed the amigados Process structure has a pointer to a GIUSTI> Console Task. This appears to be what I am looking for, but I GIUSTI> don't know how to get at the console through this pointer. GIUSTI> How can I use the console device I/O given this pointer? The pr_ConsoleTask pointer in the Process structure is a (real) pointer to the pr_MsgPort field in the Process structure of the console handler device -- i.e. CON:... runback replaces this field with a pointer to NULL: instead to background programs more effectively, so a program openning "*" won't hold the window open. If you just want to talk to the console, you can open "*", but it's probably nicer to use Output() instead. Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2151 12th St. Apt. 4, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 274-0327 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.