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- From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Whither jot?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.151751.1811@seer.demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: P & L Systems
- References: <2B4B307D.4863@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:17:51 GMT
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- > In article <1if6foINN7to@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> joe@mathcs.emory.edu
- (Joe
- > Christy) writes:
- > > I've always been a fan of jot and have quite a few notes that I've
- > > always managed in jot. In NeXTStep 3.0, jot has vanished from
- > > /usr/bin, but there are the undocumented (as far as I can tell) check
- > > boxes in the Target Inspector Services panel of the Librarian. My
- > > question is how do they work? Can I emulate the old behavior of jot,
- > > i.e. writing a free from note into an automagically numbered file in a
- > > directory of my choosing, which is indexed in Librarian. I tried
- > > experimenting with checking the box and invoking the service from
- > > Edit, but as far as I can see, nothing happened.
- > >
- I never used jot in 2.x; but I have been using the jot service with 3.0.
- Both ways of invoking it work; with some text selected, which will be
- stored as a date named file; and with a filename from the Workspace.
-
- Paul
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