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Article #35973Re: Mac Interface v. "Command Line" interface debates
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1989 18:22
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1989 18:22
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sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
Even though the Mac itself
doesn't support multiprocessing in the same way as Unix, the MPW shell
does support it's version of pipes, and making this (or something like
this) available outside the MPW environment would probably be a good
thing.
Apple certainly seems willing to let other vendors bundle the MPW shell
with their products (such as TMP Pascal II, etc.). Perhaps someone
will do the same thing with some text-processing tools instead of a
compiler. In fact, most UNIXoid preprocessors and filters should port
to MPW pretty quickly, since MPW tools sit in an environment that looks
awfully close to UNIX...
Take something like 'nro' or 'TeX in C', add a PostScript
postprocessor and a tool to send PostScript files to a LaserWriter,
and there you are. The MPW shell is a pretty good editor, with
regular expressions, selection expressions, scripts attached to menus,
and so on.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lts!amanda From: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac Interface v. "Command Line" interface debates Summary: MPW Shell can be bundled Message-ID: <874@lts.UUCP> Date: 4 Jan 89 18:22:04 GMT References: <15213@mimsy.UUCP> <958@esquire.UUCP> Reply-To: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Reston, VA Lines: 25