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danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

> mzundo@mail-gw.esoc.esa.de (Michele Zundo) writes:

> >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)

> Yet another guy who has never used a Unix shell with filename completion
> (or who didn't know how to use this feature, because all Unix shells,
> except /bin/sh have it).

"Let's see... I left that file in /pub/bin/sim... that's not it...
<up-arrow, delete delete delete>... Simulators/x25in..."

[Much typing and deleting deleted]

"Okay... so I'm in /pub/bin/Simulators/x25_Interfaces/lib_3/pix... Oh,
*there* it is!"

This is *not* anywhere close to "Apple Menu... hold... drag... there-
there- there- there- there- got it."

Unix could be really fast, if you memorized the location of every file and
directory on your machine.  But once you get past that first thousand
files, it's not so easy.

-- 
Chad Irby          |  My greatest fear: that future generations will,
cirby@magicnet.net |  for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."