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From: Sean Casey
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 19:19
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Here's my experience with browse:

Tried a make, which bombed because OFILES didn't get defined.
Fixed OFILES.
Tried again, no <whoami.h>.
Commented out #include <whoami.h>.
Successful make.
Looked at the docs. Ok, picked a few things to try.
Did "browse /tmp". Got an error message, and it put a line up for /tmp.
Tried "?" for help. Got a bunch of nulls at the bottom of my screen.
Did a ^Z to stop. Browse left my terminal in a strange mode.
Kill -9 PID to kill browse.
"tset" to reset terminal modes.
Ran browse again.
Messed with a bit. Commands not very intuitive.
Tried to quit. Couldn't. ^Zd, looked in docs and found quit command.
Tried again, it quit after several "q"s.
"rm -rf browse"

Sigh. I could *really* use something like browse, but it's just too
damn painful to use. I wish people gave more thought to user interfaces.

Sean
-- 
***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean
***  Copyright 1989 by Sean Casey. Only non-profit redistribution permitted.
***  "Gotta warn ya, if you're not a RUSH fan, well, what's *wrong* with you?"
***     -DJ during WKQQs Four HOURS of Rush special.
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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Browse
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Date: 15 Dec 89 19:19:20 GMT
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