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- From: lunardel@platon.emi.greco-prog.fr (Julien LUNARDELLI)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Command Line Interpreters
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.194129.24805@greco-prog.fr>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 19:41:29 GMT
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- steve wells (wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz) wrote:
- > Everyone seems to like this UNiX thing. (Pointless really, buy a
- > WIMPS machine, then immediately stuff UNix onto it, and use it as default
- > but....)
- > So, since you obviously don't want to use the Atari as such, why not buy
- > a UNix Machine?? (GEM programs don't usually work too well from CLI,
- > unless GEM is booted first, and then they have been known to complain,
- > although, not much 8-)
- > Why does everyone out there seem to use UNiX on their ST, instead of getting
- > a REAL UNiX machine, which would drop compatibility problems (if any)
- > to pretty much NOTHING, and you wouldn't have to chance seeing the GEM
- > environment again. Any GOOD reasons?? (Of course, you wouldn't be
- > able to run any ST-Programs on a UNiX machine, but if you run UNiX anyway,
- > you should be reasonably used to that.)
-
- CLIs are very usefull for zoo, gcc, make and all these programs
- that need args or environment variables.
-
- Have you ever tried to print a directory with GEM ?
- I don't think it's possible, or there is something I didn't
- read in the docs.
-
- I enjoy CLIs, but I couldn't bear my ST without GEM, I mean
- that I prefer my ST with the GEM alone than with a CLI alone.
- But when you've got the both on the screen, it's very difficult
- to get back to pure GEM or pure CLI. That's why I say : thank you MultiTos.
-
- You love GEM : if you buy a Falcon, you'll love multitasking GEM much more.
- You love your ST : you'll love the Falcon much more.
- (The Falcon has nothing less than the ST, only things more).
- __
- Julien LUNARDELLI
- lunardel@platon.greco-prog.fr
- lunardel@platon.emi.u-bordeaux.f
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