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- Subject: Re: COMMAND LINE INTERFACE for Macy
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.141341.77@physc1.byu.edu>
- From: goblec@physc1.byu.edu
- Date: 21 Jul 92 14:13:41 -0600
- References: <1992Jul19.220913.21077@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- In article <1992Jul19.220913.21077@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:
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- >
- > I was thinking it would be nice to have Command Lie Interface for the Mac
- > p.s. BTW, is there any utility available that would allow you to do that
- > (from Finder, for instance)?
-
- MPW does that right now. Last time I looked at ftp.apple.com they had 3.0
- of the shell alone. It should do these things for you. The commands are
- not given though. I found a book on MPW and photocopied some sheets.
- But the shell uses so much memory that I don't think I'd use it. Plus
- it doesn't have the features I'd want in a shell. I'd prefer if someone
- wrote a C Shell with all the standard utilities. ie. grep, awk, etc. plus
- hooks for apple events and mac compressors.
-
- But still I'd prefer CLI features with a better interface. But then this
- last issue of MacWeek had a preview of Magnet which seems to do all
- I want. I hope it has hooks for calling AppleEvents of other applications
- and (hopefully) some standard decompression utilities.
-
- The interface seems to be based on the Find File window in the Finder. It
- gives a list of a few functions but not how you do it. (Why don't articles
- mention the interface. I love Word's power - but hate the interface, but
- no one mentions it in reviews) The scren dump has the find controls and then a
- sub panel underneath that has the following...
-
- FIND:
- Find all files on all mounted disks whose:
- o name contains "ramsey"
- o text inside contains "hard disk"
-
- ACTION:
- Copy files to folder "Ramsey results" (preserve folder nesting).
-
- TRIGGERS:
- o Run when "New Dutch City" is mounted
- o Run after 5 minutes of inactivity
-
- Now this really isn't that bad a way of doing things. I'd still like to know
- more. One great thing is that it will automatically syncronize folders on
- Powerboo/Desktop configurations if you want.
-
- (excuse the typos. I am writing this on a Vax whose speed reminds me of
- editing with a 300Baud modem)
- - Clark Goble
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