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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.173103.6857@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 Jun 91 17:31:03 GMT
References: <1991Jun22.071317.26217@neon.Stanford.EDU> <13303@uwm.edu>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:

>I had to wring necks on my Mac to get the power out of it I needed in
>Finder, and I would have died and been reborn as a small tree frog to
>have a good shell like the Amiga does.  

  You should have looked at MPW.  If you had, you'd be croaking now.

>And with WB2.0, I never use
>the shell.  That says, at least to me, that the new workbench gives me
>as much power as the shell used to.  

  What features did you use to use in the shell, that you can now use
in WorkBench?

>> application writer.  For applications designed to do this sort of 
>> thing, (e.g. ResEdit, DiskDoubler etc), the ability to handle any
>> type of file is already built in by the programmer.

>True.  I was under the understanding that finder limited you to
>loading into applications only those documents to which it was the
>creator...  My mistake.

  Well, the Finder will limit you in the sense that it doesn't
auto-highlight the destination application, unless that application
is known to be able to process that type of file (via an FREF resource).
  Like I said before, ResEdit and DiskDoubler add a 7 byte wildcard
resource '****', which means you can drop ANY file.

>>>Like I said, deal with what you do, or have the os stand over your
>>>shoulder.  Frankly, NOBODY stands over MY shoulder.  :)
>> 
>>   Oftentimes, a guide over your shoulder can help prevent even the
>> experienced user from making mistakes.  

>So you either learn from your mistakes, and become a more powerful
>user, or you have the OS guide you.  

  Everything's B&W with you, isn't it?  Perhaps there's some medley in 
the middle.

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