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- From: prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: Mesa --- lack of database functionality
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.185648.1052@prim>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 18:56:48 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.143528.9405@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Aug20.150304.10018@dpp> <1992Aug22.172708.406@prim>
- Organization: Primitive Software Ltd.
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- In article <1992Aug22.172708.406@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths) writes:
- >
- >I think there is an easier way to provide this feature. Rather than the
- >command line tool doing the conversion itself, it should simply use the
- >Mesa API and send a message to Mesa to say "please save this spreadsheet
- >file as ascii text" and then wait for the reply.
- >
-
- Sorry, should have engaged my brain a little more before posting that. The
- original poster wanted to be able to dial-in to his NeXT and run the
- command line tool. That's the tricky part. (If he was logged on through
- the Workspace manager the only problem may be having Mesa displaying the
- spreadsheets it was converting, although a good design would seperate the
- data retreival/storage from the actual display).
-
- My question then: is it possible to launch NeXTStep applications from a getty
- (dial up) shell? Like supply a flag to say "don't display the windows for
- this app" (a bit like redirecting output to /dev/null). You may say what's
- the point?, since the app couldn't receive any mouse/keyboard events. True.
- But it _could_ receive messages for it's API.
-
- Dave Griffiths
-