Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: statement Message-ID: <1132@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 16:20:56 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1132 Posted: Wed Dec 17 16:20:56 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 07:17:35 EST References: <1107@spice.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 51 In article <1107@spice.cs.cmu.edu> mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes: > 1) The performance of the Workbench needs to be accelerated > tremendously. I haven't seen 1.2 in action yet, but under > 1.1 I don't understand how the novice could tolerate its > slowness, let alone the experienced user (read: hacker). Under V1.2 try addbuffers df0: 30 This helps icon display in Workbench a lot. > 2) The Workbench needs to be more consistent. There should be > an icon for every file in the system when the user opens a > window. Everything that the CLI can see the Workbench > should also be able to see. Or they should be available via a Xerox Star style browsing mechanism, agreed. > > 3) There should be some sort of mechanism to allow the > Workbench to pass CLI-type arguments to its programs. Setting the ToolTypes field of an icon is meant to do just that. But you want a quicker way, I guess. >When the capability to run CLI programs is added to Workbench, >Workbench users will be able to access the full power of the machine >in a friendly manner. They won't have to mess around with atrocities >like the Workbench DiskCopy which copies a disk in 8 swaps (even when >you have an external drive! -- it assumes you use drive 0 only) when >the CLI version does it in 3. Actually, the Workbench Diskcopy program uses drive 0 in a 2 drive system only when invoked improperly. The proper way is to move the icon of the disk you want to copy on top of the disk you want to copy to. (This is possible even in a 1 drive system...just open up one of the icons when its in the drive. Workbench will then continue to display that icon even if you remove it from the drive. Used in this manner, your number of swaps will decrease. BTW, under V1.2, the Workbench Diskcopy and the CLI Diskcopy are the same program. >| Mike Portuesi | andy finkel -- andy finkel Commodore/Amiga {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy or pyramid!amiga!andy Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors. "Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be complex and wonderful."