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From: erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FULLY INTERACTIVE SCRIPTS (A Tutorial)
Message-ID: <13328@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 14 May 88 16:10:57 GMT
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In article <9066@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <9927@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> pete@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Pete Goodeve) writes:

[ text about getline and explicit paths removed ]

>>BTW, for my own scripts at least, I find that the sort of place where pipes
>>can be very useful (rather than writing the input line to RAM:).  Of course
>>you DO have to have pipes installed first!  Which makes the idea not so
>>good for the installation scripts you were talking about.  (But when 1.3 is
>>released, EVERYONE will use pipes, won't they? (:-))
>
>I thought about that, but had to find a place that IN EVERY case would be
>available to store the temporary files.  T: is not good since it might not
>be there.  PIPE: would be good in 1.3, except that it MUST be mounted to be
>usable, and I cannot assume that. It turns out that RAM: is always available
>and if it isn't, it will be MADE.
>

RAM: is _almost_ always available; at least all Amigas come equipped to sue
and create RAM:.  I disovered meny moons ago, when I first began customizing
my workbench disks that the files in L: _were_ important.  My point is that
while RAM: will be created if it can be, due to the actions of the user, may
not be.  How hard is it to get an AmigaDOS redistribution license ($$$)?  If
you can provide bootable disks to do installation, the solution becomes
easier: mount PIPE:, use XIcon (or IconX ;-)  Just use the bootable disk to
configure the users WorkBench disk/Application disk, or better yet... use 
the bootable disk to format a blank disk and force the user to make a working
copy, which is appropriately customized.

-ethan


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