Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ames!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0! Message-ID: <1991Feb6.032607.21986@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 6 Feb 91 03:26:07 GMT References: <813@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Feb1.010656.6638@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <7694@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 49 glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes: > It is partly the fault of software developers. After installing Ventura > Publisher on an IBM, the installation software asks the user if he/she > wants the autoexec.bat (startup-sequence) changed to include the path/ > assignment for the installed program. peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: =| The following setup would make this easier if standardised: =| =| 1> type s:user-startup =| .bra { =| .ket } =| =| echo "User configuration 1 Sep 90" =| list >ram:t/rc-temp s:rc/#?.rc nohead lformat="execute %s%s" =| execute ram:t/rc-temp =| echo "Completed user configuration" =| wait 5 I suppose this is a dir output: =| 1> =| .info amigavision.rc =| apps.rc aztec.rc =| beep.rc elvis.rc =| moon.rc noclick.rc =| terminals.rc tetrix.rc =| uucp.rc work.rc Does this signify anything? =| 1> [] This is a good idea to become a Commodore standard. Questions: Would you need to segregate stuff into once per boot stuff and once per shell stuff, or can you really do it once and for all at the start? I do agree that this make things considerably more straightforward, though the eventual name space or "assign" collision is bound to occur. At least this way things are in small, easy to repair, well labeled pieces, and the install script for any one product can be fairly simple minded. Kent, the man from xanth.