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In article <danpop.825099855@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch says...
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>In <jragosta-2302960903020001@ppp-1011.dca.net> jragosta@dca.net (Joe 
Ragosta) writes:
>

...<snip>

>>For example, if I want to open a file on my Mac, it takes
>>a single mouse click to open virtually any file on any of my mounted
>>drives.
>
>Not quite.  You have to go to the folder containing the file first, by
>opening all the intermediary folders, then you need a double click.
>If the file is on an unmounted disk on another Mac, nobody is going to
>magically mount the remote disk for you.  If the file is on a Mac on a
>different continent, you'll be in deep trouble, while I can access it
>transparently via AFS, as if it were on my local disk.

>>How many keystrokes do you have to type ot open an arbitrary file
>>nested 5 layers deep?

>As many mouse clicks as you need on MacOS.  GUI "shells" are not something
>new in the Unix world.  The difference is that when something cannot be
>easily achieved in the GUI, I have the command line, with its extremely
>powerful capabilities, pipes, redirection et al.  You have to solve the
>problem with the GUI, if you can solve it at all.

>With filename completion, I can reach an arbitrary file nested 5
>directories deep faster than you can reach an arbitrary file nested 5
>folders deep with the mouse.
>

a user with the knowledge of an experienced UNIX user would not
have any problem using any of the many available CLI for Mac

(trust me they exists, they were written by experienced UNIX users :-)

however I'm not sure you'd really prefer typing something like 

cp /pub/bin/Simulators/x25_Interfaces/lib_3/pix2_tmp.cpp .

expecially if you do not remember properly the directory names 
(or their capitalization for what matter)


>Dan
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>Dan Pop
>CERN, CN Division
>Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch 
>Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland