Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ban the Cloud! (plus sugg. for Workbench)
Message-ID: <807@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 02:51:55 GMT
References: <YW8SaQy00Xo4yUc05z@andrew.cmu.edu> <318@jc3b21.UUCP> <774@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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Keywords: Workbench

Several years ago I suggested a scheme for graphical user interfaces for
UNIX. It sank without a trace. Then about a year ago it surfaced again
briefly, but it seems to have gone away again. Here 'tis:

UNIX pipelines are basically data flow programs. You can implement UNIX
pipelines on the Amiga.

So: you would have a window that you build your pipeline in. But because
it's dynamic, you can do things that are more complex than pipelines...


	+------+               +------+
	| FILE |               | FILE |
	+---+--+               +--+---+
            |                     |
            +--------+   +--------+
                     |   |
                   +-+---+-+
                   |  CAT  |
                   +---+---+
                       |
                   +---+---+
                   | XGREP |
                   +-+---+-+
                     |   |
            +--------+   +--------+
            |                     |
         +--+---+             +---+---+
         | FILE |             |  AWK  |
         +------+             +---+---+
                                  |
                              +---+---+
                              | FILE  |
                              +-------+

This pipeline combines two files, and leads files matching one pattern into
a file, and those matching another pattern into an awk script and thence into
another file.

Of course, if you prefer you could use ICON or REXX instead of AWK...
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