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From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Getting smaller binaries
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 19:28:35 EST
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>In <235@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) writes:
>    One of the weaknesses of Workbench is that it is difficult for
>a Workbench user to have control over the system-configuration; i.e.,
>the l:, devs:, and other system directories are hidden from the user,
>and the user has NO WAY to access them without either copying the WHOLE
>disk or using the CLI.  I feel this makes Workbench useless as a
>stand-alone environment.  What should be done is the Workbench should have
>a way to attach system files to icons...

[ ...goes on to list the specifications for workbench that would track the
     system files for the user... ]

>			-Mitsu

I don't know that I am totally interested in icons for system files.  We
don't require that the Mac people get icons on their files.  What we need 
is our own "Font/DA Mover".  This would be quite like DirUtil.  But it would
know something about the system structure.  If you want to move printer 
drivers you click on that option and it opens "devs:printers" for you.  Of
course, just like the Mac, you could close that and point the program to 
another directory.  The most important thing that this program could do is
to (as an option) only display the differences between the two selected 
directories.  You could then select as many files as you wanted from one
directory and copy them to the other without waiting for the files already
there to copy also.  Play with "Font/DA Mover", you'll see what I mean.

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