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From: adonis1@nwnexus.WA.COM (Adonis Corporation )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: what are your UNIX-NeXTStep conflicts (was Re: UI idea)
Message-ID: <522@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 91 22:58:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.050426.28427@math.ucla.edu>
Reply-To: adonis1@nwnexus.UUCP (Adonis Corporation (Doug Kent))
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In article <1991Jun3.050426.28427@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>In our effort to make NeXTSTep more UNIX-userfriendly, we should
>catalog our current difficulties, and see if they can't be resolved
>either via some Apps, or some added functionality from NeXT.
>
[stuff deleted]
>
>(3) tar/untar a file
>(4) compress/uncompress a file

A shareware program called ComingOut does this.

>(5) grep-ing a file

Digital Librarian will search anything, indexed or not.

>(6) looking/getting inside of an <Appname>.app directory,
>    mailboxes, and other directories that the browser can't 
>    see inside of (I hate when that happens!)

In Workspace, select the .app directory and do File.OpenAsFolder.

>(9) doing ``ls -a'' to see files starting with a ``.'',
>    or to look in UNIX directories like /etc, etc.
>     (I know the UNIX Expert setting in Preferences toggles this,
>      but its a pain to have to use Preferences to change it)

In Workspace, select the root directory and type "etc".  The Find
panel comes up.  Press FindFile and the user directory is listed in
Worlspace.
>
[suggested fixes deleted]

Doug Kent
Independent NeXT Developer
adonis1@nwnexis.wa.com