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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!jdickson
- From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
- Subject: Re: a Path for Workbench
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.212758.22585@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- References: <1992Jul20.124014@hp10.lri.fr> <24802@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:27:58 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <24802@sophia.inria.fr> beust@rhea.inria.fr (Cedric Beust) writes:
- >
- >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).
-
- What about the ICONS that don't have an alterable default tool? Any utility
- around to take care of that?
-
- jeff
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