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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Application switching menu for NeXT/bigger fonts for menus/etc.
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Date: 24 Jan 90 16:54:04 GMT
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In article <18769@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt) writes:
>Perhaps someone knows if there's an application which will let me select
>any of the active programs?

The dock?

>Finally, I'd like to be able to click a button in the browser window which
>would change my current working directory to the one selected in the
>browser.

Amen and Hallelujah, Brother!  This has bothered me from the beginning.
NeXT could at LEAST make Copy (and Paste) read (and set) the current directory
in the browser.  Then, you could find the directory you wanted with the
browser, Copy it, click in a shell window, and type "cd command-v" and
all would be well.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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