#: 5573 S10/Tandy CoCo
    26-Jul-90  05:51:51
Sb: #5563-Multi-View: Questions!
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Mark E. Sunderlin 74026,3235 (X)

Mark, let's see:

1. There are about 3 or 4 mods to make to stock GShell, all in Lib 10 here.
Hopefully someone knows which ones they all are . Ask again. 5 cents,
please!
   Actually, they speed up gshell, and add some new gizmos (Kent Meyers did
those). And you'll want (if you don't have it already), the FSTGRF.AR file to
speed up GrfDrv... it really helps with gshell and icons.

2. True. And you don't have to use MV always.. you can still open regular
interactive shell windows... even from MV. Gshell is just another program,
y'see... it doesn't take over or anything. Umm, VDG-screen games/etc do require
an extra util or two.

3. Pretty much true. You add icons, and what would be called PIF files on the
IBM, and gshell uses those to display and start programs.  Altho you may not
find yourself using gshell that much (which is in line with Amiga types not
using their Workbench, but instead simple shell windows like us), your sweetie
should find many things easier.
   I know quite a few people who have their machine set to come up into Gshell
so that their kids/wives can just click and go, pretty much.

4. Naw, icon editors and other utils are all over the place. I believe Mark
Griffith and Ron Lammardo helped with some of the Gshell-specific commands.

5. No sweat on the hard disk. Works best off there.

6. If no question, no answer. But you still get charged 5 cents .

7. Shocks? Slow, until you patch. Otherwise, not much.

8. Yeah, it's pretty solid these days, with Kent's patches.

9. No bad things, since you can always CLEAR to a regular shell. Maybe some
room taken up for icons, etc.

10. I'd do a "sca/sho/key:gshell" in Lib 10 and see what pops up.

NOTE* if you do a lot of programming (like you used to), then you may not use
it much. But your sweetie may. And besides, you need the Windint module which
is included to do/run the fancy menuing stuff around.