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From: buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: mac/unix interface
Message-ID: <1989@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 7 Mar 88 07:50:30 GMT
References: <4725@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian)
Organization: Advanced Technology, Princeton University
Lines: 38
Keywords: macintosh UNIX interface

In article <4725@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> cooper@beowulf.UUCP (Kenneth B Cooper) writes:
>   (Some things about a Mac front end for UNIX logins)

>(Sun users, please keep it down).  Also, if anyone reads news/mail from home
>
>The project I envision will be multi-faceted, with facilities for reading,
>saving, and responding to mail, reading and posting news, downloading files

>If anyone is interested in this idea, let me know via e-mail. I'm looking


I have been wanted to work on a similar project, but haven't had the chance.
(Graduating in June is a bit more important)  Have the mac hooked up to
ethernet, and either have access to an account on a UNIX system, or have the
/usr/spool/news mounted(like MacNFS).  Then you have a window of newsgroups(the
ones you are subcribed to).  By selecting or doubleclicking on a newsgroup, you
get a new window, with all the subject lines of unread news in that newsgroup.
Then if you click or double click on a particular subject line, you get a new
SCROLLABLE window with the article.  Imagine having a scrollable window,
and being able to read the article twice or looking back at the previous page!
All this could be Ala ResEdit.  I mean do the windowing like resedit where the
first window is the newsgroups, the second window contains the subject lines
and the third will contain the article.

Or you can do it like Font/DA mover.  The first scrollable box has the
newsgroups, you pick one, and the second textdisplay area will have the
subjects.  After you select the subject the bottom half of the screen will be
the article(where the font/da mover places font samples now.  We can move
everything up so there is more room.  And make that part of the screen
scrollable too)

OR, you can do it like the Inside MAc DA.  Know what I mean?

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