An X from any primary menu will exit to the system prompt "APS.".
No cursor or displayed characters on screens or PCs.
On the PCs when the APS Icon is selected and a window is displayed, yet there is not any text displayed the typical problem is that the foreground and background are the same color. When the system boots, use the following commands, they may have to be done "blind". First make sure that APS is NOT running by pushing ESC multiple times. Then enter the following commands and push ENTER after entering the command.
COLORS
LOG MPPN:
MAKE PWN101.BUG
APS
The program will ask if the color palette is to be reset, answer Y=yes. Later at the APS. prompt:
ERASE PWN101.BUG
Windows Systems, excess phantom jobs
When APS is running on t Windows systems there have been two situations that are caused by windows software. The result is that A-Shell will start in the “DEMO” mode and the demo screen will pop up and response will slow down. The first is the errors message 101 displayed when the APS icon is first selection on the Windows desktop. Typically this is caused when the system was shut down, powered off or rebooted without exiting the APS software using G from the Master Menu or K from the Utilities menu “Close APS Windows session”. To correct the problem, two files should be erased with either File Eplorer. Close APS with G of it at the APS prompt enter HOST. Be sure all APS sessions are closed on all workstations. In File explorer access the folder:
C:\VM\MIAME the directory to be searched
There should be two files in the list of files:
QFLOCK.SYS C:\VM\MIAME
JOBTBL.SYS C:\VM\MIAME
Note if the file names displayed are:
QFLOCK
JOBTBL
... then the file name extensions option is not checked. One of the menus in File explorer is VIEW, click on this to display the view icons. On the right side of the displayed options is a check box for File Name Extensions. Check this box and the full file name should be be displayed.
Click on each one and the push the delete key. Close File explorer and select the APS icon.
If the screen has gone "dead", then probably the APS window is not active. The top line of the screen that says:
A-Shell/32 Version ....
is gray and not bright blue. That means that the window is not active. Use the mouse and put the toothpick cursor anywhere in the window. Then click the mouse once, this should turn the top line to a bright blue. The menu selections will now accept characters.
A-Shell information commands available at the APS. Prompt:
ABOUT: The ABOUT command shows the A-Shell license, the license key, the maximum and current number of users, and the update expiration date.
SYSTAT: The SYSTAT command shows a list of jobs on the network and the programs that are being executed within each job.
