Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!reggie
From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: A real-world user interface example (was: Re: replacing the desktop ...)
Message-ID: <5317@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 12:19:51 GMT
References: <1989Jan5.224743.8165@mntgfx.mentor.com> <3500003@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation,   Largo FL
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In article <3500003@hpindda.HP.COM> kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) writes:

>> In my mind one of the few things lacking in this scheme is a set of rules
>> for trying to find a command by what the user has typed in, even if 
>> incorrectly.  We checked into this (using Soundex or something similar),
>
>there are algorithms to do this- it's not too hard when you consider that
>you just have to find the most-alike command to what the user entered.
>And you have a list of the commands.  As I recall, in one of Sahni's 
>intro CS (or algorithm analysis) books he gave an algorithm that would
>find the best word match (even allowing 'dipley' to match 'display' if 
>no closer matches exist).  You're right, though- is a bit of overkill.



      8th Edition UNIX would try to correct eroniously typed path strings.
I forget if it would handle commands or not?  Confirmation was utilized, if
I remember correctly.  And it did not appear to cause much noticable delay
in responce time.





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