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From: dew@esl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Better Windows? (multiple selection in icon interface)
Message-ID: <439@esl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 19:06:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: esl.439
Posted: Fri May 15 19:06:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 21:11:51 EDT
References: <8705150704.AA05423@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: dew@esl.UUCP (Douglas Wood)
Organization: ESL, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA.
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Xref: utgpu comp.sys.amiga:4560 comp.sys.mac:2921 comp.sys.atari.st:3274


In article <8705150704.AA05423@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>[!!!]
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
>You just described a feature of the Amiga "Workbench".  You select as many
>files as you wish to act on and then double-click the tool.
>
>You just described a feature of the Macintosh "Finder".  In certain 
>situations you may selct several files then chose "print" or such from a
>finder menu.
>

Actually, you can copy multiple files on the ST as well by selecting
them and dragging them.  But, the point in a command such as cat is
that the order of the files is important.  Selection of several files
and printing has no inherent order required.  On the Mac, printing
several files only work if they happen to be from the same application.

I don't use a shell on my Atari, but I use UNIX at work.  I am both used
to windows and shells.  I don't think that the GEM desktop replaces
 a shell; there are things that I can not do with just a mouse.  I
think that that is just inherent in the way mice are implemented on
these machines.



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