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- From: beust@rhea.inria.fr (Cedric Beust)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: a Path for Workbench
- Message-ID: <24802@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 07:36:04 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.124014@hp10.lri.fr>
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- Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
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- In article <1992Jul20.124014@hp10.lri.fr>, jpr@hp10.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere) writes:
- >I think that Workbench needs a path handling, just like a shell. That
- >would ease the
- >launch of project thru theirs icons.
- >
- >Hence, we'll no more write that defaultool is c:PPmore (just an example)
- >or sys:c/PPmore,
- >or :c/PPmore (etc :) which could fail (and will on my system ;) but only
- >PPmore.
-
- I've always thought that default tool :c/More was a heresy! Was it
- that hard to use an assign path? It wouldn't have been a lot of
- overhead to impose another assign (we already have ENV:, Work:,
- ENVARC:, etc...). WBPath:more makes a lot of sense to me.
-
- I had to create a Utilities directory on each partition and put
- More in it so I can double-click on readme's without any trouble
- (because of course, some put a ":Utilities/More" default tool. Sigh).
- Think about it! (well, now I merely drag the text file on my
- text editor's dock but my point remains).
-
- >Moreover, we could have more than one default tool which would be tried
- >until one
- >succeeds or all fails. Thus we wouldn't need every textreader in the
- >world.
-
- Yet another good idea!
-
- >What do you think about it ?
-
- I agree 110% and I'm sure there are other little details that can
- be worked out on the fly. Any other thoughts?
-
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