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From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.172307.11835@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 17:23:07 GMT
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In article <10961.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>Quoted from <1991Feb4.151637.5868@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> by rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell):

>>  Any ideas?
>
>    I do the following to set up a path, a resident list, and an alias
>    list when I start Workbench:
>
>        'wb-back'
>        'wb-resi dh0:utils/ty dh0:utils/mostra'
>        'wb-alias more ty less ty muchmore ty most ty'
>        'wb-alias viewilbm mostra seeall mostra show mostra display mostra\
>            superview mostra showpics mostra'
>        'wb-path dh0:utils'
>
>    I'd prefer a built-in alias/path system like the CLI uses, that could
>    access the same lists.
	Great! I sure wish I had WB2.0. If I did, I may actually put
LoadWB back on my boot disk.

ENV vars are still useful, especially for programming rexx/s-s's.

>--
>*** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG.        jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
>***         "Patterns multiplying, re-direct our view" - Devo.          ***