This is one of those Workbench Patches. I'm personally not (yet) one of those that fills their WBStartup drawer or user-startup with loads of pointless programs, but this one is quite useful.
Basically, it is a replacement for the Execute Command menu option. I always thought how it was stupid that it didn't have a history to access previous commands, where as the Shell does, but
I don't want to open loads of drawers to find the Shell just for a couple of commands.
Thankfully, ShellBench does provide a history, along with many other features. For one, you can drag an icon into its window, and see the full path name appear. My only fault with this is that the filename is tagged on the end always; I'd have prefered to seen it entered at the current cursor position.
Also, pressing Tab will try to guess the filename of a partially entered name, and you can cycle through possible alternatives. You can also call up a file requester to enter filenames, and this time, the file is entered at the current cursor position.
Another major difference is that it looks a lot better. In particular, if you've changed the Workbench font to something else (you have, haven't you?), then it will use it, rather than boring old topaz.
As for calling up the program, it can't replace the old version entirely (so you can't use the menu option). Instead, you press Right Amiga, Shift, E (rather than Right Amiga, E, as before).
There are loads of other features, to do with stack sizes, priorities and so on, which I haven't really looked into, but I'm
sure are just as good.
All in all, it's a great replacement for Execute Command. I wish I'd found it sooner...
