Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Browse Message-ID: <13494@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 15 Dec 89 19:19:20 GMT Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 28 Here's my experience with browse: Tried a make, which bombed because OFILES didn't get defined. Fixed OFILES. Tried again, no . Commented out #include . Successful make. Looked at the docs. Ok, picked a few things to try. Did "browse /tmp". Got an error message, and it put a line up for /tmp. Tried "?" for help. Got a bunch of nulls at the bottom of my screen. Did a ^Z to stop. Browse left my terminal in a strange mode. Kill -9 PID to kill browse. "tset" to reset terminal modes. Ran browse again. Messed with a bit. Commands not very intuitive. Tried to quit. Couldn't. ^Zd, looked in docs and found quit command. Tried again, it quit after several "q"s. "rm -rf browse" Sigh. I could *really* use something like browse, but it's just too damn painful to use. I wish people gave more thought to user interfaces. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** Copyright 1989 by Sean Casey. Only non-profit redistribution permitted. *** "Gotta warn ya, if you're not a RUSH fan, well, what's *wrong* with you?" *** -DJ during WKQQs Four HOURS of Rush special.