notes@ucf-cs.UUCP (05/13/86)
/***** ucf-cs:net.micro.amiga / cbmvax!randy / 8:23 am May 9, 1986*/ Subject: Re: AmigaDos w/o Directory in AmigaDos In article <327@ethz.UUCP> claudio@ethz.UUCP (Claudio Nieder) writes: >I think it is funny (?) that this sort of (non-)directory is implemented >on a machine like the Amiga where most program will implement an OPEN >command which shows up the directory so that you can select which file >you need. On a UNIX or MSDOS computer you are free to type in the >filename if you already know it, and you don't have to wait for the >directory. On Window/Mouse-oriented programs on the Amiga you have to >wait until the OPEN command has collected all filenames. Therefor I >think the actual implementation of the file system (directory) is >unapropriate for the Amiga. > > claudio The implementation of the OPEN operation in various programs does not require that all files in a directory be listed before selecting a file. This feature is a result of how the programmer has written the code. It would be just as easy for the program to have a menu option that lets you either OPEN (with a resultant list of all files) or OPEN AS which then requests the user for a filename. -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Randy Weiner -- Commodore Business Machines <<Amiga Technical Support>> uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!randy arpa: cbmvax!randy@seismo.css.GOV (or) randy@cbmvax.UUCP@{seismo | harvard} TEL: 215-431-9180 /* ---------- */