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From: ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
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Date: 4 Feb 91 13:43:36 GMT
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dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:


>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.

Absolutely great idea, Dave! And if the environmental variable wasn't set
you could have the default be the default tool. Give this man a job, C=.

Additionally,  whenever the system can't find either the environmental
variable or the default tool, have a requester inform the user of this
fact and ask him if he would like to help find it. Then up pops a file
requester a la AmigaVision, with which the user sets the path. (excuse
me if this has been covered before, I've missed much of this thread).

Regards,
Richard
gerber@rigel.astro.uiuc.edu