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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shell vs CLI
Summary: One is a tool, the other is a project
Message-ID: <962@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 90 05:39:59 GMT
References: <2426@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <2426@castle.ed.ac.uk> mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) writes:
>Using info on the icons on my workbench disk seems to show that both Shell and
>CLI run the same program, namely System/CLI. My question is how does CLI know 
>whether to start up a Shell or a CLI?

If you select Info from the Workbench menu, you can see that the CLI
icon is a Tool icon.  The Shell icon is a Project icon.

When you click on the CLI icon, Workbench launches the CLI program and
tells it that it has been invoked without any other arguments.

When you click on the Shell icon, Workbench locates the apropriate tool
(program) to process this project (data file).  In this case, the CLI
program is given the name of the data file, Workbench:Shell.  This
additional piece of information is what SYS:System/CLI uses to decide
whether to create a new CLI or a new Shell.
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