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A-Shell Reference

MAXINST=##

Example:  MAXINST=1

(Windows only) MAXINST allows you to limit the number of A-Shell windows or sessions that can be run simultaneously on one workstation. If not specified, then there is no particular limit. The main reason for setting a limit, especially a limit of one, would be to eliminate the confusion that arises when inexperienced users don’t realize they have a session already going (perhaps because it is minimized) and so they open another, perhaps repeatedly. This, by itself, is not a problem for A-Shell, but it may be a problem for the application, if, for example, the user has a record locked in one of the sessions and then leaves it there indefinitely because they forgot about the session.