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From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Links
Keywords: Link are good.
Message-ID: <3163@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 89 13:56:32 GMT
References: <8909180737.AA29741@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <1989Sep18.210925.5543@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Organization: Allen Bradley
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In article <1989Sep18.210925.5543@NCoast.ORG> davewt@ncoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
>	Well, that IS the obvious way, but it still requires that the OS
>be patched to handle links, which is just another place for a bug to
>creep in. And for a fairly unimportant feature at that...

I have never used many of the system calls (like maybe OpendiskFont()) and
probably never will.  Am I allowed to say they are "fairly unimportant
features"?  The whole attractive power of the Amiga is its open architecture
and features for everyone.  Links may be unimportant to you, but that is
NEVER a reason to not include it in the Amiga.

I have tried on several occasions to add link support of any kind but just
never had enough knowledge of AmigaDOS to patch it.  So I've given up.

P.S.  I've changed your keywords to "Links are good".
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