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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
Message-ID: <779@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 03:22:03 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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It would be nice to have something like environment variables for icons with
standard names, so that instead of having default tool be sys:utilities/more
it could be $PAGER (or whatever syntax you like), and then if I *want* to
use more to look at text files, I can have (in S:Startup-Sequence, most likely)
something like "setenv PAGER=sys:utilities/more".  Or (my personal preference)
I could have "setenv PAGER=ram:MuchMore".  That way, I wouldn't have to deal
with eleventy-two different pagers, and their command structure.

Surely this would be an easy thing to do.

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