Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!mfg From: mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Shell vs CLI Message-ID: <2426@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 22 Feb 90 10:41:39 GMT Reply-To: mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) Organization: Edinburgh University Electrical Engineering Lines: 11 Using info on the icons on my workbench disk seems to show that both Shell and CLI run the same program, namely System/CLI. My question is how does CLI know whether to start up a Shell or a CLI? Is it the path the program is called by, the type of icon or something completely different? AdvTHANKSance -- Michael Gordon - mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk OR ee.ed.ac.uk You can't have everything - where would you put it? -- Steven Wright