Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lts!amanda
From: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Interface v. "Command Line" interface debates
Summary: MPW Shell can be bundled
Message-ID: <874@lts.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 18:22:04 GMT
References: <15213@mimsy.UUCP> <958@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Reston, VA
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sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
    Even though the Mac itself
    doesn't support multiprocessing in the same way as Unix, the MPW shell
    does support it's version of pipes, and making this (or something like
    this) available outside the MPW environment would probably be a good
    thing.

Apple certainly seems willing to let other vendors bundle the MPW shell
with their products (such as TMP Pascal II, etc.).  Perhaps someone
will do the same thing with some text-processing tools instead of a
compiler.  In fact, most UNIXoid preprocessors and filters should port
to MPW pretty quickly, since MPW tools sit in an environment that looks
awfully close to UNIX...

Take something like 'nro' or 'TeX in C', add a PostScript
postprocessor and a tool to send PostScript files to a LaserWriter,
and there you are.  The MPW shell is a pretty good editor, with
regular expressions, selection expressions, scripts attached to menus,
and so on.

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