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From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:18

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In article <1992Dec23.115338.2267@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) writes:

> Spurred on by the news emailed from at least three sources
> that dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path_to_file> *does* work,
> I discover that in each of my previous trials, I must have
> screwed up, for (tra-la!) it certainly works now.  I guess
> that because the path is really quite long in my case (eight
> levels down from root, about 70 characters), I must have
> had a typo that my eye/brain corrected.
> 
> There's a lesson to be drawn, naturally, from the Zen of
> computing. :-)

There sure is: use the tools that NeXTstep 3.0 has given
unto us!  Navigate in the browser, grab that final
directory icon and drag that sucker into your eagerly
awaiting terminal window.  God, I love that feature - it's
great enough to upgrade for it alone!

--
Nathan Janette
PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu

Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)

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