Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!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: <1991Feb6.033356.22164@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 6 Feb 91 03:33:56 GMT References: <812@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Feb3.101342.8383@news.iastate.edu> <7704@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 19 skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes: > I'm not sure if this is needed, but how 'bout a REXX bit in the file > system, like the pure bit except for REXX programs... peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > Better would be a method of including a comment with the file to > describe what interpreter to use. It can't be in the file itself > because, unlike UNIX, it's too late to standardize comment > conventions. How about putting it in the filenote? Probably not. The Amiga community (at least the part we see here, and who else gets a vote? ;-) tends to ship a lot of software from system to system, including unpacking and repacking it on various hosts. I think a filenote would not survive this process, right? Kent, the man from xanth.