Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <47650@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 22 Apr 91 16:26:07 GMT References: <47402@ut-emx.uucp> <16954@chopin.udel.edu> <10904@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <10906@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Apr21.084145.13978@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 50 In article <1991Apr21.084145.13978@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > ARexx is VERY powerful, though with AmigaOS2.0 is is limited to >'power users'. I do wish Commodore would design some kind of icon- >oriented ARexx script builder (somewhat like AmigaVision) that would >allow novice users to make use of ARexx. My other beef with AmigaOS >2.0 is that ARexx was not really built into the OS, but merely included >with it. I would like to see ARexx more heavily integrated into >the OS, replacing the AmigaDOS script langauge. Well, ARexx _is_ really integrated into the OS. Remember all you have to do is provide a disk-based shared library to make OS extensions. You consider text-to-speech part of the OS, don't you? The translator.library is on disk until it gets loaded for use. Most likely the RexxMaster will be run in your startup-sequence, so the only difference to the user between the AmigaDOS shell script language and ARexx language is typing 'rx' instead of 'execute.' Replacing the AmigaDOS script language is a no-no, anyway. First of all, you have the issue of downward compatibility. Also, there are things that may be more easily done in a simple shell script. Imagine having to type 'address command' for every line (a bit of an exaggeration) in a script. >Even with outline >fonts, AmigaOS will not have font technology that is even half as >sophisticated as that of the MAC System 7.0. Commenting about something you have absolutely no knowledge about again, eh Marc? How can you make predictions about the Amiga OS's future? > One thing that I wish Commodore had included with AmigaOS2.0 is >a preferences utility to change the system SetBeep() to a digitized >sound, a la MAC System 6.0. Does anyone know if preferences on >AmigaOS2.0 has been modified to allow third-party preferences utilities >to be added, like on the MAC? If so, this is one utility that I >would definately like to see someone write. There's nothing really to it. Someone could write an intuitionized program with maybe a file requester to pick out the sample. They could conform to the standards for the Preferences utilities and stuff the program in the same directory. There isn't just one preferences program anymore, you know. There's a drawer with all of the programs in it. It's a whole new beast for 2.0... Greg -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground. What have we found? s609@cs.utexas.edu |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd