Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000 & A-TALK questions Message-ID: <2443@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 30 Dec 90 13:18:16 GMT Lines: 47 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <719@ncsc1.ATT.COM>, dcl@ncsc1.ATT.COM (Dave Love) writes: >In article <2435@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >>In <4601@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, masaru@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Masaru Sugai) writes: >>> >>> - exact documentation (i.e. setenv functionalities) >> >>The A3000 docs are quite good. What is it you don't understand about their >>explanation of SetEnv? > >If his docs are the same as mine, they still list the LOCAL environment >variables under the SetEnv command, when they are actually set using the >Set/UnSet commands. SetEnv just sets the GLOBAL environment variables. Hmm... the docs for SetEnv in mine speak only of global variables, while Set refers only to local variables. Time for you to get the release version of the A3000 binder perhaps? >Likewise, the MakeLink docs are incorrect ... True, and as you say, it's a moving target. Hard links work as advertised of course. > and several commands (i.e. CPU, iprefs) aren't documented at all. Ahh... right you are. > Several shell enhancements aren't >mentioned either (backtick commands, automatic CDs, no restriction on >the placement of the redirection symbol '>' on the command line, etc.). I'll take your word for it. I don't use the supplies shell. >So, while the A3000 docs are very good, they are aimed at a moving target >(WB 2.0), so can be a little confusing (or just plain wrong) at times. Agreed, but they are indeed to be counted among the best ever CBM documentation. -larry -- The best way to accelerate an MsDos machine is at 32 ft/sec/sec. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+