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From: lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What can't it do? <Was Re: Rumor -> Loss of...
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.220052.24143@spectrum.CMC.COM>
Date: 8 Jul 90 22:00:52 GMT
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In article <886@mdavcr.UUCP>, ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchel) writes:
>> I am a big Mac fan, but I am realistic enough to recognize the
>> deficiencies as well as the stregths of the Mac.  Among the limitations:
>> 	- No standard command line interface.  A BIG minus for many power
>> 	  users.  Try deleting a number of files in nested directories that
>> 	  satisfy some search criterion with a single command.

In article <28778.269229da@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
   ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby)) writes:
>A real "power user" organizes his or her files a little better than that.

Absent the (coming) alias feature, the system right out of the box does
not have a good way to organize files. I want to have my most frequently
used data files grouped in one place for easy reference; I also want all
files related to a particular application/system in one place. Yes,
Disktop, Powerstation etc will do that. But we were discussing the
system as provided by the vendor.

>Of course, all of the real Mac powerheads are gonna get A/UX anyway-
>so who really cares?  I work on Macs all of the time, and might have
>saved nearly a minute in the last three months with something 
>like this... :)

I see... and "real programmers" use SUNs, so who cares what a Mac looks
like :-) :-)

><P.S.- Whatinhell is a "standard" CLI?  No two the same, dude- look at
>"directory."  Dir, ls, or directory?

But all the modern CLIs allow user tailoring; so when I move back and
forth between VMS and Unix, I have aliases for all the common commands.
The actual command set is much less important than having a command line
interface.

My Mac at home has its own phone line. Many times I have wished that I
could call it from work and Kermit a file.

MPW is a great command line interface; but even SYMANTEC does not use
it, so it's obviously not "standard". If I could run Think C under MPW,
I'd buy MPW.
-- 
/ Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer
  CMC Rockwell  lars@CMC.COM