From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problems with the "mwindows" switch Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 16:24:51 -0500 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <00836c9e-9ed0-4638-9d0b-0b3cd4e07c65@googlegroups.com> <37731869-bfb2-47b1-b0cf-7e4e806019c1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rrsoftware.com X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1433193892 5176 24.196.82.226 (1 Jun 2015 21:24:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 21:24:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26125 Date: 2015-06-01T16:24:51-05:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote in message news:mkam2p$olr$1@dont-email.me... > On 05/29/2015 02:24 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote: >> >> (No one navigates to a directory to click something.) > > All this time I thought I was somebody, but it turns out I'm no one. I should have made it clear that I was only talking about clicking on programs in a directory, not ordinary files (which might run a program). One's much more likely to use the desktop or start menu. But clicking on a program in a directory is the only way that a CUI program would be run from the GUI if one doesn't register it (which is useless, because the output doesn't go anywhere). I admit I've occassionally clicked on CUI programs and batch files, but only by accident. They're only supposed to be run from the command line (and the majority of them take arguments that won't be provided by clicking on them anyway). I occassionally click on a GUI program that I have under development, but even that is very rare (and it's unique to developers). If you're clicking on programs in directories outside of development, I have to ask why. And nothing about developers is typical for Windows, it doesn't have anything to do with the way most people use Windows. Randy. Randy.