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Amiga vs IBM & Mac

    24-Feb-91 11:42:46
Fm: Steve Bennett/SYSOP 76702,1071
To: Jim Saklad 72017,355
I should have clarified that somewhat. By screen saver I don't refer to the old fashioned screen blanker, but rather something which comes up and does neat things with the screen. (After Dark for the Mac or PC is a good example…) Under a multitasking & windowing system, it is a fairly trivial task to do this. Under a non-multitasking system, it's still possible, but a lot more difficult, and on a non-windowing system like DOS, it's nearly impossible. As for using Diskmaster and wildcards: That's fine, but you've moved away from the "pure" GUI in that case. You're actually resorting to *typing* a filename. (Shudder… 🙂 And it's probably still faster for an experienced person to do it with CLI commands. Also, will Diskmaster allow you to send such wildcards to ANY program? Can I, for example, run my GIF display program HAMGIF passing it #?.gif using it? I'm not too familiar with Diskmaster having experimented with such programs ages ago and giving up on them as too slow and cumbersome. –>Steve Bennett