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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Interface v. "Command Line" interface debates
Message-ID: <6171@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 6 Jan 89 00:56:59 GMT
References: <15213@mimsy.UUCP> <958@esquire.UUCP> <874@lts.UUCP> <6167@hoptoad.uucp> <7859@claris.com>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <7859@claris.com> drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) writes:
>
>You can overcome this and make it more like unix if you remember to select
>your response to the prompt before hitting "Enter".  Yes, I know that it is
>a kludge; however, it can get unix programs running and keep them running
>under the shell.

I've done that; after about a minute you're ready to throw the Mac into
the wall.  "Kludge" does not go quite far enough.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Our newest idol, the Superman, celebrating the death of godhead, may be
 younger than the hills; but he is as old as the shepherds."
    - Shaw, "On Diabolonian Ethics"