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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
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Subject: Re: IPC -- The Blind men..,
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Date: 5 Apr 88 13:54:14 GMT
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Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
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I'd like to also point out that sometimes software might come with a program
that you really, truly do want to use to read a particular piece of text.
Thus, if you are going to do something like this, you should allow for an
"ignore_env" bit...

Also -- you aren't going to come up with all the classes people might use.
Face it -- you aren't.  People who really start using it are going to set
up the pictures with DPaint, their music with DMCS.  C programs get one
editor while maybe Pascal programs get the same editor but maybe they
want to call it differently.

Finally, I'm not sure how it currently all works, but it would be nice
if one could specify a fancy command line to call the program with.  This
way you could call up my_editor with one command file containing macros if
it's a c program and a different command file if it's a letter to your
mother....

Whatever. -J

In article <28104@linus.UUCP> eachus@mbunix (Eachus) writes:
>
>     Let me make a proposal for one part of the  elephant.  We need to
>be able  to  have software find  out about your preferred  and current
>environment transparently.  For example, many disks come equipped with
>read-me files which  invoke THE AUTHOR's  preferred display program if
>you click on the icon.   What  I want to happen  is for such a file to
>invoke the program specified by ENV:Display as  the default or to pass
>the file to whatever program currently running handles display of text
>files.  And of course  we need to  do this  in a way that allows  Fred
>Fish  disks, etc. to do something  rational  on systems without a ENV:
>assignment.
>
>     One last issue, we may need to have more than one classe for some
>objects.  A C program should have class  C as well  as class  TEXT. If
>the tool invoked (by clicking on  the icon, from  the CLI  there is no
>ambiguity) is clever it will ask whether  to compile  or edit the file
>before calling the server.library to find out which tool to  invoke to
>do the editing (or compiling).
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