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My comment was not to say that these new items were not useful. Clearly
they were at least useful to the people who wrote them. My point is more
that nearly all of these toys are useful only to CLI users, and even among
CLI users the ones who will use them are primarily developers. Joe User
who knows about the CLI (which puts him in the 10% minority of Amiga users)
will still probably never use pipes, or the AUX device, or…
And then we have the average user, who never uses the CLI (about 80% to 90%
of Amiga owners fall in this category). To them these thingies are
virtually useless.
So, look at it this way. The tools like aux: and path developed for
1.3 _are_ for the developers who can then incorporate these 'standard'
tools in their applications software that they then sell to Joe User. Joe
_does_ benefit, but in a roundabout way.
Some Amiga users only use them for games..they could care less
about either the CLI or the WB. Some Amiga users never touch the WB, so
they could care less about the WB, same for those who only use the WB and
never touch the CLI…they could care less about the CLI. That wasn't my
point…my point was that 'the squeeky wheel gets the oil' and the
squeekiest wheel has been CLI users.
These thingies, as you call them, James, would/will be useful if/when
developers use them with XICON (or ICONX) in the background to improve/ease
installation of products. If you add ARexx to the equation, the system
becomes even more flexible.
Ok, now, let's see — A standard script calling an ARexx script, using a
demo version of ARexx like the one from the TxED distribution disk (Bill
H., will you license/permit that? I would imagine so…) that does an
installation after looking for DH0:. Or Better Still, calls a WB program
to permit the user to describe his system or let the program do best guess,
that returns a return code (and perhaps an extended one) to the CLI ARexx
script, that then proceeds to install the products appropriately.
Hmm, that's a decent start, I must say (– apologies to Ed Grimley). Any
other ideas out there?