Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: cat -u
Summary: UNIX Icons!
Message-ID: <2429@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 12 Dec 88 22:20:21 GMT
References: <175@ernie.NECAM.COM> <189@wyn386.UUCP> <8910@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9138@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: SCADA
Lines: 49

In article <9138@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <146@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
> >What ever happened to the original Unix Philosophy of lots of little
> >programs...

> In a Macintosh-like environment, the situation is radically different,
> because there is no good way to combine independent processes into a
> larger unit.

> Of course, one useful integrated
> application would be a UNIXy shell with pipes and a bunch of basic
> UNIXy utilities.  So much for the icon interface.

For about the 50th time in the past 5 years or so I would like to
suggest that someone with a windowing UNIX box consider the possibility
of an icon-based pipeline builder.

You could even build structures that can't be expressed in sh!


	/-----\
	| GET | - - [ -p s.fred.data ]
	\-----/
	   |
	/-----\
	| PGM | - - [ -options ... ]
	\-----/
	   |
	/-----\
	| TEE |
	\-----/
	/     \
       /       \
   /-----\   /-----\
   |SORT |   | PGM | - - [ -more_options ... ]
   \-----/   \-----/
         \   /
          \ /
	/-----\
	|MERGE| - - [ -whatever ]
	\-----/
	   |
	+-----+
	|FILE |
	+-----+
-- 
Peter da Silva     `-_-'     Ferranti International Controls Corporation
   "Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"        uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter
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