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From: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Just the facts, maam.
Message-ID: <4543@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: 11 Apr 88 21:18:48 GMT
References: <900@nuchat.UUCP> <1961@dino.ulowell.edu> <1816@sugar.UUCP>
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Summary: Have you read the docs, Pete?

In article <1816@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1961@dino.ulowell.edu>, miner@ulowell.UUCP writes:
>> If you looked at Bill Hawes programs you would see that he preaches and
>> follows this same philosophy.
>
>Well, ConMan doesn't. I used it for a few days and got totally disgusted with
>it. It doesn't fit well into the Amiga: it should have a new name, for example
...
[Pete gives plenty of good reasons why a programmer would want Conman to have a
different name than CON:]
...
>If I still had access to the old console.device I could have opened up a new
>CLI window with it and done my tests there. Since most of what I do on this
>machine *is* programming that makes it completely useless for me.
>

Peter, have you even *looked* at the documentation for Conman?  I've only read
the documentation for Conman twice, and what you are looking for is designed
into the system.  I don't have the docs in front of me right now (I'm at work),
but they state quite clearly that if you prefer, you can mount Conman as a
different device named something like CNM:.  I'm not sure of the exact name.
As a lowly user, I never understood why anyone would want the old CON: when
they could have Conman instead, but now I see that Hawes is actually catering
to a wider audience than just users.  

>This is all beginning to remind me of Richard Stallman. Another brilliant
>programmer who doesn't seem to have a good overall perspective.

Actually it looks more to me like another brilliant programmer (yes, that's you
Pete! :-) who adheres to the "if all else fails" school of use of
documentation. 

>-- Peter da Silva      `-_-'      ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter

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