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    13-Apr-92 08:03:47
Fm: BILL LEACH 71330,2621
To: Dominick J. Fontana 74766,2154
Dom; I would suggest NOT trying to mess with the initial shell window. I don't know about WB_2.x but under 1.3 and older, that initial CLI was quite a bit different than any subsequent CLI or Shell. I also would suggest that you should consider getting Bill Hawes's WShell. WShell will give you a scroll bar on your Shell. Plus, of course, you can open it at any size you wish. While it is best if you don't "mess with" the CBM "Startup-Sequence" file, Doug's suggestion is a reasonably elegant solution. Rename your S-S to something like "StartupII" and create a new S-S that has a line that reads "newshell con:0/0/600/400/Start_Shell from S:StartupII". Of course it would also be best if you moved the line "setpatch >NIL:" from the original S-S to the first line of your new one. -bill/ARS KB7LX