Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!IRO.UMontreal.CA!desmarai From: desmarai@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Stephane Desmarais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Pipes Message-ID: <1990Jun13.161651.2935@IRO.UMontreal.CA> Date: 13 Jun 90 16:16:51 GMT References: <1990Jun9.062243.24641@cbnewsm.att.com> Sender: news@IRO.UMontreal.CA Reply-To: desmarai@iro.umontreal.CA (Stephane Desmarais) Distribution: na Organization: Universite de Montreal Lines: 17 In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes: > >Of course, I also want to be able to select input from all text output >into the CLI, but that's a different problem. > This is what I liked the most on the C-64. Display a directory listing, and edit the line to load the program (and of course I only had to type a '/' in front of the line). This is just a simple example, but sometime it was really more sophisticated than that. On the Amiga, I use Snap. Unfortunately, the 64 had no input history (hey, maybe I could write one? I'll add it to my long list of projects :-). -- Stephane M. Desmarais desmarais@iro.umontreal.ca (le Domaine Canadien) Departement d'informatique uunet!mcgill-vision!iros1!desmarais Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128 Succ. A Montreal Quebec Canada H3C 3J7 Projet IBM/CRIM/UdeM sur MAP/MMS (514) 343-7660