Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!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.advocacy Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0! Message-ID: <7693@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 3 Feb 91 05:00:52 GMT References: <1991Jan27.135843.2056@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <7663@sugar.hackercorp.com> <813@cbmger.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 23 In article <813@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: > >A workbench assign tool would be nice. Sounds like a good PD program now > >there's a decent "system" interface. > (It's obviously the day of BIG WB menus :-) > So you want to click on a certain drawer (or file) and then invoke > a menu item (in the "Icons" WB menu) named perhaps "Assign" and then > a string requester opens where you can assign a name to this? No. Did I say "tool" and you read "menu"? No, I want a tool called "Assign" that I can open and get a list of assigns, or I drop a file into it and it asks pops up the string requestor you just described. It's not difficult. And it's really needed. > But one can argue whether "half" memory protection would be worth so > much more than "no". Yes, it would. Hell, even the 2 pennies worth you get from Enforcer is worth more than none. Really. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .