Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!elbaum From: elbaum@reed.UUCP (Daniel Elbaum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: REZ questions. Message-ID: <9020@reed.UUCP> Date: 25 Apr 88 00:49:14 GMT References: <8WOJNQy00VQFQHaEU7@andrew.cmu.edu> <28716@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <397@brambo.UUCP> Reply-To: elbaum@reed.UUCP (Daniel Elbaum) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 25 Keywords: rez unintelligible Summary: rez useless to floppy people? In article <397@brambo.UUCP> morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) writes: . . . >After playing around with REZ, I find it a really inspired piece of code, >but not quite complete enough to be a useful tool. The two problems >that struck me were that REZ didn't use the PATH to determine where >commands are (easily fixed), and that the disk containing the command >has to be inserted in a drive which makes it next to useless on a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >floppy based system with a meg or more. I can see two ways to solve ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ???? I can't really see what you perceive to be the problem. I have a 1MB floppy-based system and rez is perfectly suited to my resources and needs. Once the commonly-used stuff is loaded, I very seldom have to put the workbench disk back in. Daniel Elbaum elbaum@reed.UUCP tektronix!reed!elbaum "My employer is wholly responsible for this and all postings"