Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:32:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Steven Hurdle <ya830 AT victoria DOT tc DOT ca>
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: New Deal is more robust IMO (was: Gem/3.  A big YES vote here.)
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|   A way of creating shortcuts or launchers to DOS programmes is necessary
|too, IMO.  New Deal has a different icon for DOS programmes with a .EXE
|(and .COM) extension and DOS programmes are therefore easy to find and
|load, and you can create shortcuts to ones you load often.  With GEM, I
|found myself taking longer than I wanted searching for executables in
|large directories because they don't have a unique icon, and there's no
|way to create shortcuts to them (actually, I guess you could create batch

   I see now that I was wrong and GEM does have a unique icon for files
with a .COM or .EXE extension.  It had a similar, boxy shape to another
icon and I didn't notice the difference at first.  Sorry.  :)

   I do find GEM's interface difficult and unattractive.  Difficult in
that the file manager is non-windowing (up to two, non-movable file
displays), unattractive in the sense that it's a two-colour display with
simplistic icons.  It hardly takes advantage of VGA, and in fact looks
like they simply adapted the CGA display to the larger resolution.

   I don't suppose that GEM has long file name capability either?  It
doesn't appear to.


							Steven Hurdle