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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 22 Jun 91 00:48:18 GMT
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From article <1991Jun21.025704.27445@neon.Stanford.EDU>, by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
>>For instance, I can load executables into most Amiga text editors and
>>patch them. 
> 
>   Of course, the "average" user is really going to want this feature :|

Well, you make a choice.  You either gear the gui completely for the
average fool ( insert smiley ), which eventually makes the OS a pain
to the power user who likes features like this, or you leave it open
enough that the average user has to deal with the choices he makes,
without an os to slap his hand and say "no, bad boy."

>   Just add a '****' wildcard resource to your text editor, and all
> will be dandy.  

Sounds like a kludge to get around something the OS doesn't want you
to do to this mac user.  And amiga user.  And once 24bit support is
better on the Amiga, I'm dropping my mac like a hot potato.

>   In terms of the average users, I wager most people would be confused, 
> and annoyed if they could drag anything onto any application, only 
> to find out when the application launched that it says
> "Sorry, I can't open this file".

Like I said, deal with what you do, or have the os stand over your
shoulder.  Frankly, NOBODY stands over MY shoulder.  :)


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