Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: suggestions Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 91 14:50:30 GMT Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 39 ecwu61@castle.ed.ac.uk (R Renwick) writes: > Well I ain't ever used an OS that has a built in 'undelete' >facility. You've never used a Macintosh? Never used an Amstrad PCW? Ah, well. >> Group selection of icons within a window would be useful. If you're familiar >> with the Atari machines you'll know what I mean. Being able to have a rubber >> banded selection area would make things a lot simpler when operating upon >> a lot of files. > > Yuch!!!!!!! Windows 3 on the PC allows you to do this and it >make the overall appearence of the desktop look terrible. I like to see >the files in nice neat lines and in alphabetical order so I know where >in a window to look for a particular file. That's an entirely separate issue. GEM on the ST allows you to rubber-band icons; it also lists them in neat lines and in alphabetical order. You can have your icon and eat it, too. >> What about passing parameters to programs from the desktop. Select a program >> and using the menu, enter the command line parameters you want to use. > > Surely this is down to the application itself. ie Pascal and C >compiler front ends allow this. This shouldn't have anything to do with >the OS. Again, on the ST I can click on a command-line-driven program and the machine will pop up a little box. I type the parameters, and off it goes. Much nicer than having to call up that wretched command line interpreter, or having to learn to use yet another compiler front-end. > Have you ever used a PC for DTP? If you had, I'm sure you would >understand why PC people get excited when they see what the Archi can do. If you've used a PC for DTP, almost anything looks exciting :-) mathew.