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From: gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC
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Date: 8 Apr 90 23:34:17 GMT
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In article <212@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann) writes...

(whole lots of multi-theory deleted)

>I'm supprised that's all you do while downloading.  When I'm downloading
>a group of files (usally from a Fred Fish Disk), I start the download, then
>click to my shell window, format a new disk, and begin unarchiving the
>files as they arrive (all while the download is taking place).  Also, I often
>look at the contents of text files while waiting for the next file to be
>completed.

I do all this as well as run a shell just for programming or a game 
while I wait. In fact, I never actually run my terminal program (vt100 
if any one cares, I have to use kermit, you see), I just execute a 
script which sets up everything for me (including loading another script 
into ram: so that I can zoo to disk from ram:) and shuts it all down 
when I'm done. Now if I just got arexx, and made a macro which would do 
my downloads in the middle of the night....

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