Conference hydra::amiga_v1

2334.0. "SOME AMIGA TECH TRICKS" by RAIN::BARRETT (Keith Barrett HTF) Tue Mar 07 1989 16:31

    I thought I'd post this in case someone found it interesting.
    
    
    1) The ALIAS command in WB 1.3 accepts a lot more characters than
    the usual alphanumeric set. It is possible to modify your shell-startup
    procedure to include such things as:
    
    	ALIAS SHOW/QUE   PRINT   (For those with a backround spooler)
	ALIAS STOP/ID=   BREAK
    	ALIAS SPAWN/NOWAIT NEWCLI    
        
    	It is possible to define an ALIAS that terminates with a trailing
    space, so that something like:
    
    	ALIAS PRINT PRINT -t<space>
    
    	will produce "PRINT -t test" and not "PRINT -ttest" when used.
    REMEMBER that the ED and MED editors automatically remove trailing
    spaces from a file, so actually putting a trailing space in the
    shell-startup will require the use of a different editor.
    
    
    2) VIP can be installed on a harddisk, but it requires some clever
    editing of the executable program with a binary editor like NEWZAP
    to change the df%d definitions to hd%d.