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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: UNIX like interface for MAC.
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 02:02:26 EDT
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	You could impliment mouse base piping through multiple commands
	You could impliment mouse base redirection
	You could impliment command line options via the mouse

	But did anyone take the time to think how long it would take to
	setup a typical UNIX command line?

	cat /etc/passwd | sort -r +2

	-Hit the 'cat' icon,
	 the PIPE icon
	 the SORT icon

	-cat runs ... asks for a file name.  Enter the filename or have
	 some sort of browser w/ the mouse

	-sort runs, asks for options (After all, we want to sort the third
	 field and have the output in reverse order)


	Thank you, I'll stick with a shell.  I don't see how anyone could
	make a usable enviroment out of that if it took 5 minutes to set up
	every command.  And don't give me any s&%t about 'impliment
	aliases'.  I use aliases extensively, but a lot of the stuff I 
	type is diverse enough not to be practical to put in an alias.

	The only reasonable interface you could cook up for the MAC would
	necessarily be a simplistic one.

					-Matt