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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
Message-ID: <885@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 08:27:40 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.113601.1338@sugar.hackercorp.com> <9474@uwm.edu> <7553@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <7553@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>>From article <1991Feb11.113601.1338@sugar.hackercorp.com>, by peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva):
>
>>>There's already an "execute" bit. A file with the execute bit set but not
>>>in Amiga load format should be treated as a script. No reason to blow
>>>another bit on the same thing. Too late *now*, of course, but why compound
>>>the mistake?
>
>In article <9474@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>>> Well.....  Not necessarily.  If not loadable, and execute not set, it's a
>>>script, yes.  Fine.  If execute set, make it a script that runs like a
>>>command.  But set the SCRIPT bit if you'd like to make it an AREXX script.
>
>	But what do you do when (suppose) Commodore decides that AmigaBASIC
>programs can also be executed from the CLI by typing their names?  Add
>another "AmigaBasic" bit??
          ^^^^^^^^^^
Ah, you said the AB word :-). There comes another idea to my mind:
How could we give CLI/Shell the ability to evaluate the .info files?
Just type in the name of a project file, the system finds that this
is not an executable binary, and now (new!) looks for existance of
a .info file. If present, the default tool is gotten from this file,
the tool and project loaded as if started from WB. How about this
enhancement to Shell? Would it mean big overhead? I think, one even
wouldn't need another signal bit (if yes, then how about p for
project).

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