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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Better Windows?
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 03:14:06 EDT
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: One more idea. One of the reasons I often drop down to a command interpreter
:while using my ST is that I can pass multiple files as arguments to many
:programs (ex: cat a.t b.t > c.t).
: Wouldn't it make sense to be able to HIGHLIGHT these multiple files from
:the desktop by single clicking, and then ACTIVATE the program by double
:clicking on it. The result being the filenames (+ volumes/subdirectories?)
:being passed to the programs in argv,argc form.

	That sounds like a great idea, but in general, you can only do so
much shell'isms from an icon enviroment.  You get to a point where the amount
of knowlege you need to understand the enviroment rivals the knowlege 
required to use a shell, and that the amount of work you have to do to
achieve the same result is an order of magnitude larger than the same thing
in a shell.

				-Matt