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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!BC
- From: BC@cup.portal.com (Robert David Comer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: WB2.1 & Rexxmast
- Message-ID: <72529@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 22:03:56 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <jwalkup.2yxz@terapin.com>
- Lines: 38
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- >Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang) writes:
- >
- >> This is a good change since many people would comment [Rexxmast] out of the
- >> Startup-sequence file in order to custom define their rexx environment
- >> via user-startup which was executed before the WB2.0 rexxmast.
- >
- >
- >I don't know if it's good or not. I mean, ARexx *doesn't work* until
- >you go hacking around in your Startup-Seq. Most people don't like to mess
- >with that (or don't know _how_ to mess with it).
- >
- >I can just see it:
- >
- >Befuddled user: "Hello, Gold Disk? My ProPage 'Genies' aren't working
- >anymore."
- >
- >Gold Disk: "Are you sure ARexx is running?"
- >
- >User: "What's that?"
- >
- >Gold Disk: "Well, are you using WB2.0 or above?"
- >
- >User: "Heck yeah, I just installed 2.1."
- >
- >Gold Disk: "Oh, that's Commodore's fault. You'll have to edit your
- >Startup-Sequence."
- >
- >User: "What's that?"
- >
- >ad confusium... ad phone-billium... ad tech-support headacheium...
- >
-
- What about just dropping the AREXX icon into WBStartup???
- Works great, is easy to do, and you don't have to change your S-S
- Take about 10 secs to do, and can be easily described by phone.
-
-
- Bob Comer
-