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From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: User friendly?
Message-ID: <152@kesmai.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 88 22:29:51 GMT
References: <887@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA
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Summary: Discover PopCLI

> I wanted to back up a work disk and meanwhile draw some sprites in Dpaint.
> I was in the CLI and did a "run diskcopy".  Diskcopy asked me to press
> return, but because it was being run in the background, didn't accept any
> input from my CLI.  It did, however, change my disk names to "DF0:BUSY" and
> "DF1:BUSY", so that I couldn't access them.  With 1 meg of stuff loaded in
> ram disk, I was forced to reboot the system.
> 
> 	*&(Jonathan Dubman)

Personally I think Commodore should have issued some form of PopCLI with
the workbench considering how small/simple/useful it is.  It is a major
improvement to the CLI environment and it's a bit silly to have new users
have to ransack the public domain to get it.

I can't really fault them for not including the ability to open a window in
each of the various utilities accessable from the CLI, its extra space added
for little purpose when Popcli will let you pop a new CLI any time you want.

In your case, if you know beforehand that you were going to want another
CLI, you should have typed 'newcli' to get another cli and then could have
operated dpaint under one cli and your diskcopy under the other.

David Albrecht