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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: CLI
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 22:02:15 EST
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	My personal opinion of the CLI is that it is a Cluge for the OS
not providing a standard I/O interface (e.g. file descriptors) to programs.
However, I also must reiterate that the Amiga people were correct in trying
to make it as small as possible.  Since most programs require a CLI to run,
having a large CLI with thousands of features (that programs running under
it would never use), would simply waste huge amounts of memory.

	Rather, I think the proper course of action is to use a shell
program of some sort instead.  You could put as many features in the shell
as you wanted, since it would not be duplicated for every program running
under AmigaDos.

	And speaking of shell's.... I have been inundated with school
work and probably won't have time to finish fixes to my SHELL program.  I
am flattered that it was placed on one of the recent distribution disks,
and hope to have a new version out sometime soon.


	Thank you robp@amiga (Robert A Peck) for your posting of a
method to execute/get return values.  I will attempt to incorporate it
into my SHELL.  

	Could somebody repost the way I can check for the BREAK key?
PRIORITY: I need to be able to reset the signal so I can process BREAK's
again and again, how can I do that?

				Thanks,

				-Matt