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From: soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh)
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Subject: Re: Shell Menus.
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Date: 7 Jun 90 03:57:28 GMT
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BARRETT@forest.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:

>BTW, the DOS Shells on the SUN SparcStation have menus.  Why can't
>the Shells on the Amiga have this feature?

SunView shells have menus, and I believe this may be a feature of
all editing windows (Canvases?  Don't know much about SunView
terminology).  In the X Windowing System, all applications which
use the Text widget seem to share a common clipboard.  (On the
Macintosh, there is a shared buffer for all text, but I digress.)

My standard CLI in X is xterm, and it only provides menus for
modifying internal and display attributes since it was designed
that way.  Unfortunately, shells in the Amiga (pre KS 2.0) don't
seem to have been integrated well with Intuition; shell writers
appear to believe that if a user wants a shell, he must be doing
text based I/O, hence a lot of effort is put into the keyboard
interface.  Don't take my word for gospel - I've only programmed
small applications for the Amiga so far.
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