Utilities 3 (Disk 38) (Mar 1987) : c / AlternateCLICommands /

Options: Show Icons

	Name	Size	Date	Type
	../
	Break	488	1987-01-11
	CD	600	1987-01-11
	dc	9344	1987-01-03
	Echo	148	1987-01-11
	inf	16936	1987-01-03
	LF	400	1987-05-14
	MkDir	336	1987-01-11
	myinstall	508	1987-05-21
	myinstall.asm	7374	1987-05-21	Text [Original]
	mywhy	1136	1987-05-24
	mywhy.asm	6658	1987-05-24	Text [Original]
	mywhy.poster	1171	1987-05-25	Text [Original]
	Prompt	340	1987-01-11
	RunBackground	3268	1987-01-03
	RunBackground.doc	17408	1987-01-03	Text [Original]
	SetDate	2456	1987-01-03
	Stack	400	1987-01-11

mywhy.poster

Path: l5comp!stride!utah-gr!utah-cs!ut-sally!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU!bryce
From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: new "why" CLI command
Message-ID: <8705180636.AA04155@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Date: 18 May 87 06:36:01 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Lines: 56

This is a replacment "WHY" command.  Compared to the standard AmigaDOS
version it:

1> Gives more information.

   Fail code 20, error code 218; device (or volume) not mounted

3> Can be translated from what ever language it is in now, to German, 
   French, Italian, Russian or even English.
   
2> Is faster since the old "why" actually just called "c:fault"

3> Gives useful information even if the C: directory is not on-line
 
4> Can be made "RESIDENT" since it does not call c:fault

5> Is innocent of the ->weird<- ways that BCPL programs work.


See the source which will appear in a few days in comp.sources.amiga for
the full scoop.  (C)1987 Bryce Nesbitt

O  O  bryce@cogsci.berkeley.EDU      {ihnp4,seismo}!ucbvax!cogsci!bryce
 {}   Dedicated to curing this latest world-wide outbreak of BCPL
\__/  BPTR? Just say *no*!