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- From: fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 20:12:49 GMT
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- Charlie Moody (chmood@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu) wrote:
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- : A couple of features *I'd* like to see:
-
- : - adoption of *nix pattern-matching; it stands head, shoulders, and ankles
- : above the original Amiga 'system' in power, simplicity, and flexibility.
- Enabling the * character is already possible (just like enabling the "|"
- pipe symbol).
-
- : - spooling / print control. The original 'game-machine' concept is the
- : only reason I can see for this being left out.
- Yes. (me too :)
-
- : Regarding assignment-handling, I have a file, S:Assigns, that holds all my
- : assignments. I execute this from user-startup. It makes handling assigns
- : simple and painless. Adoptiong a simple convention like this would keep
- : new-pgm installs from continually modifying the startup files.
- If this script contains only assign commands I'd prefer to leave out
- all the assign commands and let something like bindnames (aminet)
- interpret the remaining assign arguments. That's what I do on my
- system but, of course, all these installer scripts ignore it :-(
- Making bindnames standard would be a good move. (And enabling the
- pipe symbol by default!)
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- Hi, I'm not a signature virus. Why don't you just copy me into your signature?
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