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From: jmynatt@ragnarok (Jim Mynatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Laziness
Keywords: Terminal, Viewer, Services
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Date: 3 May 91 20:50:22 GMT
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In article <1991May1.142136.19889@sinix.UUCP> dhg@sinix.UUCP (David Griffith)  
writes:
> I'm lazy. That's why I like the file browser in Workspace Manager. I
> hate typing "cd, ls, cd... etc". But here's the problem: you've
> browsed your way down a deep directory path and decided you want to
> do something unixy with the files you see. So you'd like to launch
> a terminal window at the current directory. But you can't! It's so
< rambling deleted >

What Terminal (or Stuart) needs to do is provide a service which expects a  
'thing' (document or directory) and then cd to the appropriate directory before  
initing or becoming key (if already running).  Then the file viewer menu would  
provide something like Services>Terminal>cd to dir p (or something similar).

Of course a new app could be written that provides the service then launches  
Terminal.

Aren't services wonderful?

Are you listening Scott Hess?

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