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Re: Whither jot?

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From: Paul Lynch
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
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