CompuServe Thread

John: I've not seen a good implementation of the more useful command line tools or filters on any of the icon-based systems. Aztec C comes with a good set of tools like make, grep, diff, etc., but they all operate from the Aztec SHELL, a–you guessed it–command line interface. One of the ways you could implement such a thing on the Mac is to use the Finder's Application Parms field in the Above A5 space to keep track of which file(s) you wished to make, for instance. This is an example of using traditional command line args in that icon-based interface, but it doesn't take into account the args you'd want to pass to make or grep..sigh. I frankly don't know if you can pass WorkBench opened applications args. I know of the bugs with Lattice..that's one reason I'm pleased to be using Aztec instead. They don't have their SHELL together yet and a release date is probably still a few weeks away, but the raw speed and efficiency of the compiler is something I'm looking forward to using even without the SHELL. The "trickle down" theory of software development is slow, indeed. That's why we're here, though, isn't it? By exchanging discoveries and posting questions we'll EVENTUALLY turn this board into the premier Amiga development resource available. Right now, for example, the Mac Developer's Sig is the quickest and surest way of getting an answer to _any_ Mac programming question. Patience. The spooler idea's a good one. Tools I'd like to see: a profiler; a graphic memory display tool, illustrating allocated blocks of memory and their owners as well as their contents; a source level debugger…