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Article #1741Re: Whither jot?
From: Paul Lynch
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:17
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:17
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> In article <1if6foINN7to@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> joe@mathcs.emory.edu (Joe > Christy) writes: > > I've always been a fan of jot and have quite a few notes that I've > > always managed in jot. In NeXTStep 3.0, jot has vanished from > > /usr/bin, but there are the undocumented (as far as I can tell) check > > boxes in the Target Inspector Services panel of the Librarian. My > > question is how do they work? Can I emulate the old behavior of jot, > > i.e. writing a free from note into an automagically numbered file in a > > directory of my choosing, which is indexed in Librarian. I tried > > experimenting with checking the box and invoking the service from > > Edit, but as far as I can see, nothing happened. > > I never used jot in 2.x; but I have been using the jot service with 3.0. Both ways of invoking it work; with some text selected, which will be stored as a date named file; and with a filename from the Workspace. Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!seer.demon.co.uk!paul From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Subject: Re: Whither jot? Message-ID: <1993Jan7.151751.1811@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <2B4B307D.4863@deneva.sdd.trw.com> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:17:51 GMT Lines: 23