Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Proposal for an Amiga Shell Message-ID: <8701031030.AA23133@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 05:30:16 EST Article-I.D.: cory.8701031030.AA23133 Posted: Sat Jan 3 05:30:16 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Jan-87 09:39:07 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 20 For Sure, it's cute, but not completely practical. Customization Aside, my major complaint about such a system is simply that it's too cluttered. Three windows? One of the several terminal programs I wrote had two windows ... a 'terminal' window and a 'command' window, and I can tell you that I got rather tired of the 'command' window. keywords also slows me down... I don't want to be forced to type long drawn out english keywords for commands. Shell's were never meant to be user friendly. So I think maybe it would make a good idiot-box. As far as I'm concerned it goes into my "It works in Theory, but not in practice" folder. Oh, P.S. I am definately *NOT* saying that my Shell is real, it isn't. I have yet to see any shell that efficiently integrates keyboard, mouse, and graphics screen with the power of shell scripts, aliases, and file/command completion. -Matt