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From: jbjones@marlin.NOSC.MIL (John B. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Now that the smoke had cleared (Honest Mac/IBM questions)
Message-ID: <1284@marlin.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 28 Dec 89 16:49:24 GMT
Reply-To: jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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All this Mac/IBM blood-letting reminds me of a couple of questions I had
about the Mac interface.  With a mac, how do you

1. Activate something out of sight (in a sub-folder).
2. Copy something out of sight to the current or another directory.
3. Redirect the output from one program to another as input; example:
	prompt>awk -f fil.awk this | awk -f fix.awk >> that
4. Write batch files(i.e. is there any highlevel, simple programming
   feature in the Mac OS?)

I'm deliberating on whether to buy a Mac or IBM clone; money is one
serious factor, but these four questions are probably the biggest pivot
points in the whole thing.  I would also like to know for purposes of
general working knowledge.  This is probably net worthy to post, but
please don't start another gunfight over it.

john
jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil