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> In article <danpop.825099855@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch says...
> >
> >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.

You're wrong. As we all knew, you're talking about something you don't
have a clue about.

It takes a single mouse click on a Mac. Have you ever heard of
hierarchical menus?

As for different continents, I don't have any problem opening any file I
want on Macs in a different state using the same single mouse click. All
you need is an alias of the drive in your Apple Menu and automount set up.
If this is really something you do often, it's worth the few moments to
set it up. Then you can happily open any file you want in a single mouse
click.

> 
> >>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.

You can beat one mouse click?

Let's see, you have to remember the name of all the nested folders and get
the file name exactly right, then type all this information in. Oh, you
also need to have all your paths set up so that you can actually open the
file from the shell (and not from within the application).

You're fooling yourself.

-- 
Regards,       Joe Ragosta

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