Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!eutrc3!tuewsd!tuewse!wswietse From: wswietse@tuewse.lso.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Norton utilities for UNIX (was: drawtree for Unix/Sun/curses?) Message-ID: <751@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> Date: 15 Dec 89 09:55:45 GMT References: <11758@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Dec6.235050.26453@aqdata.uucp> <370@wshb.UUCP> <1989Dec14.210052.3148@gdt.bath.ac.uk> Sender: news@lso.win.tue.nl Lines: 6 In the past, a few interesting attempts have been done to provide a "user-friendly" front-end to UNIX. Two approaches known to me are vsh (visual shell) and menunix (menu-oriented shell). Both programs provide a way to select files from the current working directory, and allow the binding of frequently-used commands to a single key. Check out your nearest source-file archives if you are interested.