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I just downloaded a copy of REZ from a BBS system last night, and I have some
questions about its use.

I have been using the old Resident command from the 1.2 Gamma distribution to
make a bunch of BCPL commands resident (copy, rename, delete, etc).  I find
that with these commands resident and with ConMan running, I get nearly all of
the functionality of the Dillon/Drew shell for less memory (unix-like syntax is
not important to me, and I can live without the superior scripting
capabilities).  Anyway, Resident allows you to replace the default CLI with a
CLI-Resident that somehow "knows" about these resident commands and uses them
without having to search the disk.

I tried out REZ, and installed the big blob of commands I normally make
resident.  They installed fine, but I was shocked to find that I still had to
have my Workbench disk in the drive so that the CLI could search for the
resident commands!  For me, the whole purpose of having commands resident was
so that I wouldn't have to have the Workbench available to the system at all
times (I have 1.5M and one disk drive).

I understand that REZ works by stealing the LoadSeg() and UnLoadSeg() vectors
in AmigaDOS.  In this case, it is understandable that the CLI is still
searching for commands on its path since the resident stuff is happening at
such a low level.  But is there a way to make REZzed commands less dependent on
the Workbench disk, or should I continue to use the 1.2 Gamma Resident and wait
for the one that's supposed to come with 1.3?

If this message is not "techy" enough for comp.sys.amiga.tech, please let me
know by email.  I would like to get a better feel for what is appropriate for
this group.

                        --M

Michael Portuesi / Carnegie Mellon University
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