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Article #4138ditch that keyboard (was Re: Login Tiff)
From: Patrick Hester
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:27
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... -- Patrick Hester ph@pencom.com (212) 513-7777 NeXT Mail OK =8(\/\)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinews!usenet From: ph@pencom.com (Patrick Hester) Subject: ditch that keyboard (was Re: Login Tiff) Message-ID: <1992Dec24.192743.27725@pencom.com> Sender: usenet@pencom.com (News system) Reply-To: ph@pencom.com Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated References: <1992Dec23.115338.2267@macc.wisc.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:27:43 GMT Lines: 24