Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DMouse artifact (was: Re: ConMan Question) Message-ID: <8806300744.AA14596@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 30 Jun 88 07:44:09 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 14 >I'm curious as to why Matt chose not to use a CLI environment for >launching the command, as it would allow for inheritance of directory, >paths, stacksize, etc. Matt? > > -Bill Hawes Ahhh... Several reasons, the least of which is the incredible waste of memory having the CLI structure, stack, associated file locks, etc... But mainly, since there are a limited number of CLI's, I don't want drivers, handlers, and other non-interactive programs wasting them. -Matt