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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WorkBench Dreams
Keywords: I wish..
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Date: 12 Dec 88 22:33:15 GMT
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In article <1137@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
>Please, please no more `+'/`-' switches.
>I HATE SIWTCHES that have a single letter mnemonics.

One of the things that should be made easier is taking a vanilla unix C
program and making it run on the Amiga, including under the workbench.
It's not too much to ask someone to create an icon, but it IS a bit too
much to ask them to edit the program's main() and fix up the argument
conventions and startup code.  And many if not most of these C program
use single letter switches.  See my earlier posting on suggestions for
an improved workbench for a way to make this much more palatable to
workbench users.
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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