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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5?
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Date: 11 Jul 90 23:54:26 GMT
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In article <1990Jul11.152749.10928@axion.bt.co.uk> CRouch@axion.bt.co.uk writes:
[...]
>a good file organiser (perhaps similar to the sunview organizer), the
>idea being that naive users don't need or want to learn how to use unix
>- they're much happier with a wimp interface.
Sun has a nice XView filemgr, mabie they could be convinced to donate it.
(somehow I doubt it, but...   it would give more sys. mgrs. a good reason to
compile XView)

>An improved xedit, allowing WYSIWYG editting and multiple windows.
Why do you need xedit to give >1 window?  Bring up another xedit.
For WYSIWYG, I think Andrew has something close but I havn't had the
time to get and compile a working version of Andrew...

>(What I'd really like to see is some good spreadsheets, databases, word
>processors, project management tools, etc. for X, so we can get rid of
>all the bl**dy PCs, but I suspect this is not something the consortium
>will be providing.)
GNU is/was working on a spreadsheet, if gnumacs is an indication it will
have X support.  For the rest you are on your own...
-- 
           stripes@eng.umd.edu          "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Mutitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
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