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Re: Dream OS (GUI or CLI????)

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From: NicolasMONNET
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 22:37
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Jan Just Keijser (jjk@lbvrtda.logica.com) mumbled:
| In article <3vtnmn$s7g@cwis.isu.edu>, kellcrai@cwis.isu.edu (Inconnu) wrote:
| >In article <3vpfcn$s5b@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
| >S. Johnson <srjg7930@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
| >>now this will start a flame war but I have to say it.  There's nothing, 
| absolutely nothing that you can do in a CLI that you can't d=
| >>o in a GUI, theoretically speaking, of course.  As to why some people favor 
| CLI's I guess its pure inertia (BTW I started out using =
| >
| >Well, try this in a GUI:
| >
| > ls -R | grep 'filename' | mailx smitjohn@blah.domain.edu
| >
| >which will search for 'filename' through all subdirectories, starting in
| >the current one (not including directories above it) and mail the results
| >to John Smith.

Well, you CAN actually do it on MacOS, using AppleScript...
It won't be that compact, however, and I'm quite sure I would not
be able to make it work on the first try, but it DOES exist.

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Nicolas Monnet <gene@ccomm.grenet.fr> <- temporaire

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From: gene@cicg-communication.grenet.fr (NicolasMONNET)
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Subject: Re: Dream OS (GUI or CLI????)
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Date: 8 Aug 1995 00:37:20 +0200
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