Re: GUIs Considered Harmful

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From: Alan Braggins
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:17

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>>>>> On Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:16:02 GMT, peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) said:

> What I'd like to see is a really graphic shell. UNIX shell commands would
> be icons you link together, with an attached property sheet you can use
> to build the command line:

I'd like to see this combined with a concept of more than one "stdin", and
a version of tee which feeds into multiple pipes.

Thus you could draw two different pipelines and feed the result into a
diff icon (or three into diff3). There would also be "untee", with options
for outputing one input till empty then the next, or side by side columns,
or non-deterministic line at a time.

It might be possible to do this in a Unix shell which just hides temporary files
or named pipes.
--
Alan Braggins, Shape Data (A Division of EDS Ltd), Cambridge, UK +44-223-316673
   "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
 "My employer does not necessarily share my views - but I'm working on it."

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Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
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From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins)
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:17:19 GMT
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