Subject: Re: Easy Assigns for IBM/Amiga Imagine?
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 15:55:57 -0700
From: Lesk@cc.snow.edu (Lesk)

Andrew said
>I _would_ like to see a way to autoMAGICally convert paths and all... I
>just downloaded a bunch of attributes that Soren Wind put together
>(thanks Soren!), and all the paths and all are screwy. I wish there was
>something to convert them automatically. I dread having to go into each
>and every attribute and edit them...
>

I had the same problem when I downloaded those same atts; However the one
thing I really appreciated were the long filenames that gave clear
indication as to what they were. Most of the time this is my first
indicator of what to keep and what to dump when I start finding my disk to
full. I would rather convert and enter long names and add that extra
description.

>At any rate, it speaks for the need for standards...

No, Just the need for conversion.

>I really like
>Worley's suggestions, if we cannot agree on my proposal above...
>

Yes they are a good place to start but I find that I have many other
considerations than what Worley introduced. I am very sure others out there
would look at mine and call me a lunitic, and have some other way of doing
things. I respect everyones way of doing things but want my own style. This
is why things like configurable buttons at the bottom of the screen are so
desirable to people, and all those crazy configuration files....

uh oh I see a plug for arexx coming.......

Yep! you guessed it! Arexx once again... I have at least six other software
packages that are integrated to the way my system is set up. This, as one
bird put it is 'the only way to fly'.


Well anyway I think an application could be developed so that you would
teach it your configuration and it would convert to a standard then on
another system it would have been taught theirs and unconvert from that
hidden standard to their system (a sort of uuencoder decoder if you will).
It could all be menu driven and at least semi automatic (in fact the amiga
interface could be entirely different than the MSdos version), and let
everyone have things their own way (of course if it were a major
application then I would agree to standard interfaces etc.).

                                                Render Ho!
                                                   Lesk






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