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From: hess@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: File Directory Tree browsing
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Date: 9 Feb 89 07:20:16 GMT
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In article <511@solaris.UUCP> mcvax!cernvax!solaris!wyle@uunet.uu.net (Mitchell Wyle) writes:
>Even the file browser in NeXt has only two directory levels.  When I saw
>the 386i demo'd, there was a file-tree display program which showed many
>levels of directories, but the system was slow, and you still had to cd to
						     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>the directory to do any useful work. ...

I don't know about the 386i demo you saw, but on my 386i the organizer
with map option allows me to view a directory subtree and double-click on
any file I can see.  If the file is executable, double-clicking invokes
it; otherwise, double-clicking opens an editor window for it.  Yes, it is
slow; I usually find the keyboard/command window to be faster than using
the mouse.  But the visualization is available, and it is nice at times.

I have also recently had occasion to play with a NeXT box, and I find the
NeXT browser to be less intuitive than the 386i organizer, as well as less
flexible (limited to three columns, while the 386i window can be resized to
spread a tree clear across the screen).