#WorkBench (cough)
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Henry,
Your assessment of WorkBench is fairly accurate. It was thrown together quite
hastily and has several bugs. There are some things that don't seem to have
been very well thought out. It appears as though it was something CBM thought
of just before releasing (i.e. it looks like it was just kludged on top the
rest of the OS). But, nonetheless it's there. I personally don't use it, but
that's because it soo unweildy to use (especially if you ever use CLI). Since
most development tools use the CLI I have to use it. And since the two don't
look out for each other, at the CLI I will stay.
//
\X/ Lynn
Lynn, go over and ask Jeff or Steve to show you "NeoDesk" on the Atari ST
sometime. You will be very impressed – and they admittedly stole a couple of
things from WorkBench (editable icons, etc.) it's an awesome user interface. I
hope WB 1.4 has alot of NeoDesk's features and power.
Ha! There's your problem. You're not using the Amiga as an Amiga! I use
both the WorkBench and the CLI interchangeably, and i do NOT have crashes. My
machine runs 24-hours, 7 days, unless there is a thunderboomed, or I go away
for a day or more. I reboot about once a week, or less, generally from
something that gives me a guru or whatever. I do NOT reboot on any system
disk. I run them from WorkBench or I do not run them. Of course, i'm not a
programmer, so I'm not prone to the many crashes that programming precipitates.
The WorkBench serves me well. It has some shortcomings, but it's better'n
issuing a bunch of repetitive commands (such as for moving a subdirectory).
J:
Jay,
Repetetive commands? For a normal COPY…
makedir dest:dirname
copy dirname dest:dirname all
or with Jeff Lydiatt's copy program….
copy dirname dest:dirname all
(this one creates the destination directory if is doesn't exist)
-larry
Repetitive commands, as in moving fonts around. Makedir fonts/fontname;
copy fonts/fontname to fonts/fontname; delete delete fonts/fontname/#? all –
– etc.
I use Dirutil-III for such nonsense. I paid for CLImate, but don't have
room for it on my WOrkBench. OH well. Harddisk next year.
J:
So speaks the expert on WB interfacing? <grin> –Ben–