Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Why is everyone bitching about Workbench Message-ID: <6895@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 26 Oct 90 00:56:19 GMT References: <901016.15214734.033391@CMR.CP6> <1990Oct16.223458.14735@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <35239@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 11 In article <35239@cup.portal.com> Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com writes: > What is it specifically that people don't like about the old Workbench? As the author of a fairly popular workbench replacement (browser), I'd like to answer in two words: ".info files". Workbench 2.0 addresses the main problem: the inability to manipulate *all* files with the workbench. It's still single-threaded, which is a problem in a multitasking environment, but it's good enough I don't use browser at all any more. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .