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From: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT hypercard analogues (also, don't shun UNIX)
Keywords: hypercard UNIX shell
Message-ID: <16441@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 90 02:24:20 GMT
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Reply-To: poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser)
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I think that this presents another example of the utility of the
capabilities that come with UNIX, as pointed out by another poster.
Although it doesn't do everything that a hypertext system does,
a great many of the applications that Hypercard and Hypertalk are
used for on a Mac require no special software on a UNIX system like
the NeXT because the shells do them just fine. A lot of people
think they need something like Hypercard just to write scripts because
they have never used a system with a programmable command interpreter.