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ditch that keyboard (was Re: Login Tiff)

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From: Patrick Hester
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:27
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In article <1992Dec23.115338.2267@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) writes:
> 
> Well, here I sit, head hung in shame.
> 
> 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. :-)

The lesson is to NOT type, but to drag the file's icon from the
workspace to the shell window. How did I ever get along without
this feature?

Of course I've been known to cut/paste letters instead of typing...

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Patrick Hester   ph@pencom.com   (212) 513-7777   NeXT Mail OK   =8(\/\)
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Subject: ditch that keyboard (was Re: Login Tiff)
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