Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lts!amanda
From: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Interface v. "Command Line" interface debates
Message-ID: <876@lts.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 15:34:12 GMT
References: <15213@mimsy.UUCP> <958@esquire.UUCP> <874@lts.UUCP> <6167@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Reston, VA
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tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
    [stuff about prompts etc.]
    The MPW Shell is nothing like a UNIX emulator.

I agree, and I thought I was reasonably careful about what I said, but
let me rephrase: The C programming environment for MPW tools is very
similar to the UNIX C programming environment.  For example, you have:

    signals
    stdio
    math
    System V memory manipulation

and so on.  The discussion that my original posting was a part of was
centered around UNIX-style document processing tools, which for the most
part would be quite easy to port, even with the anomalies that Tim
mentions in how console input is treated, since they are NOT interactive.

I never said MPW was a UNIX emulator...

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