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Article #706Re: Dream OS (GUI or CLI????)
From: NicolasMONNET
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 22:37
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. -- Nicolas Monnet <gene@ccomm.grenet.fr> <- temporaire Eleve ingenieur Ensieg/INPG et pas fier de l'etre | Maquettiste/Infographiste
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!grenet.fr!not-for-mail From: gene@cicg-communication.grenet.fr (NicolasMONNET) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Dream OS (GUI or CLI????) Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 8 Aug 1995 00:37:20 +0200 Organization: C.I.C.G. , Grenoble Message-ID: <4064j0INNkce@cicg-communication.grenet.fr> References: <DCxKvr.A1B@carmen.logica.co.uk> Reply-To: gene@cicg-communication.grenet.fr NNTP-Posting-Host: cicg-communication.grenet.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]