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Workbench for novices

    21-Jul-88 03:37:11
Fm: Vic Wagner 76046,3004
To: Henry Colonna 74726,3216
Henry, sometimes I think you're just pretending to be thick. Other times, I'm not so sure. Your insistance that WB must be able to configure itself in order to be useful is nonsense. There are well written instructions for producing a 'working' WB disk (and YES it requires you to use the CLI). The fact that one is required to use the CLI in order to make a good WB disk HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE UTILITY of the WorkBench. Doing the original configuring of the working disk is NOT something that is done often, and I see no reason to require the WB facilitate doing it. Next your going to bitch that you have to use an EDITOR to change the startup-sequence. "Why can't I just line up the Icons in a row?" I hear you cry. Incidently, try running around 20 copies of the DOTS demo from the WB. Did it work? Is that multi-tasking? Since we have all tried that, and it works, and it it mulit-tasking; I'm wondering what YOU mean by multi-tasking, since it doesn't seem to be what everyone else calls multi-tasking.