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From: bsyme@cs.strath.ac.uk (Brian J Syme IE88)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 2.0 Specs
Message-ID: <3587@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 5 May 90 15:42:30 GMT
References: <101@nic.acc.stolaf.edu>
Reply-To: bsyme@cs.strath.ac.uk
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
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I'm not "In the know" but as far as I can gather...


In article <101@nic.acc.stolaf.edu> hopp@thor.acc.stolaf.edu () writes:
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>   Is there now resource tracking?

	Doubt it. Basically incompatibe with "the way things are done now".

>   Automatic detection of a 68881/68882?

	Has been since at least 1.3 (by the math*.libraries's)

>   Is there still such a difference in being started up by the workbench as
>      opposed to the cli?

	Almost certainly, though the WB supports the notion of automatically
	launched applications, and allows programs to create icons/menu options
	that appear to be part of WB.

>   What exactly happened to the dos.library?

	Completely re-written in C, and with loads of new functions
	such as symbolic links (multiple directory appearances of the
	same file) and "notification" i.e. applications can be notified
	of changes being made to a file/directory, allowing automatic
	preference updates by programs, and file-requester updates (for
	example.)
>
>How about it?  We could wait for the new RKMs, but if anyone is already in the
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	And I'm sure we will.....


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