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From: doner@engrhub.ucsb.edu (John Doner)
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Subject: Re: "The Debugger"
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Date: 21 Dec 89 00:00:11 GMT
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In article <9333@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>Nothing new for Jasik.  I still haven't figured out how MacNosy is
>supposed to work.  The documentation seemed to have been written by an
>Albanian midget coming down off a bender.

I learned to use MacNosy in the days before it had a decent user
interface (didn't know this one was 'decent', did you?); when all
there was was "tty mode".  The documentation was more or less hopeless
then too.  You had to pretend you were using a glass tty to a
mainframe, and try to guess what the commands meant.  Actually, this
turned out surpriswell.  The fact is, MacNosy let you do what you
needed to do when you needed to do it.  Isn't that the bottom line for
user interfaces?

John Doner