Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!phoenix
From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Neophyte Revisited
Keywords: Thanks 10^6!  More comments/gripes/questions.
Message-ID: <11561@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 89 16:42:36 GMT
References: <10272@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <10272@ihlpb.ATT.COM> you write:
>(...and then I'll work on GEOS for the Amiga...)

     Otay! My day has been made! P-)

>	- I'm getting sick of one drive.  Swapping is getting on my nerves
>	  already.  I'm also tired of error 103 appearing.  What's more
>	  important to a happy system?  Another drive (hard or floppy)?
>	  More memory (remember, this is a 500)?

I'm also a 500 owner (the term "user" gives me the screaming heebie jeebies,
for some reason), and I was in the same situation as you are. I went for the
memory first, and still think it was the better idea. The BEST idea is to
get both, as I now have. However, the extra RAM will allow you to set up a
reasonable RAM:C directory (added to your path of course) wherein you couild
copy your commonly used CLI commands, and whatever else you felt like putting
in there. Also, a few games are beginning to require one meg of RAM. 

>	- Is there any reason to even consider purchasing Commodore's
>	  modem over any other?  Hayes compatable, right?

Not that I've seen. I bought a Mitsuba a while ago and have been perfectly
happy with it - actually, I'm on my second; the first got fried by a power
surge on the telephone line, but that's not its fault.

>	- Who really needs CLI??  Maybe this attitude will change once I
>	  get the hang of it (and another drive?).  Books and gurus seem
>	  to be the way to go here.  Any good recommendations for a book
>	  geared towards the experienced UNIX hack on learing CLI?

Everybody needs CLI eventually, unless they're sticking with things like
pre-packaged software. You do telecom; you'll find that most of the things
(if not everything!) that you download will be ARCed or ZIPped or whatever,
and that's best done from CLI. Since not all files have icons (unlike in 
GEOS, wherein every file automatically as at least SOME sort of icon, even
if it's that silly "C64" thing), you can't see them all from workbench.
Again, this is particularlly true (in my experience) with public domain
stuff.

Anyway, hope all this helps. 

                                                     - R'ykandar.

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