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From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What can't it do? <Was Re: Rumor -> Loss of...
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Date: 13 Jul 90 18:29:58 GMT
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(kenk@tellabs.com (Ken Konecki) writes, after questioning the
validity of the word "power user" (which I agree to):

>As for deleting a number of files in nested directories, no CLI
>(command line interface) I have ever used can do this. All the ones I
>have seen must invoke another program to accomplish it (e.g. the Unix
>shells would call the find command). And, with few exceptions, a CLI is
>only as good as the programs it invokes.

The shareware command line interpreter 4dos has a builtin command
GLOBAL. By the way, 4dos works well under Windows 3. Now 
if they only would create a Windows-specific version ...

Wolfgang Strobl
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