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- Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
- Message-ID: <ALANB.92Aug25171719@swordfish.sdl.mdcbbs.com>
- From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins)
- Date: 25 Aug 92 17:17:19 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.181915.2357@twg.com> <id.J0KS.KF1@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Shape Data (Division of EDS), Cambridge UK
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- In-reply-to: peter@ferranti.com's message of Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:16:02 GMT
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- >>>>> On Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:16:02 GMT, peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) said:
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- > What I'd like to see is a really graphic shell. UNIX shell commands would
- > be icons you link together, with an attached property sheet you can use
- > to build the command line:
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- I'd like to see this combined with a concept of more than one "stdin", and
- a version of tee which feeds into multiple pipes.
-
- Thus you could draw two different pipelines and feed the result into a
- diff icon (or three into diff3). There would also be "untee", with options
- for outputing one input till empty then the next, or side by side columns,
- or non-deterministic line at a time.
-
- It might be possible to do this in a Unix shell which just hides temporary files
- or named pipes.
- --
- Alan Braggins, Shape Data (A Division of EDS Ltd), Cambridge, UK +44-223-316673
- "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
- "My employer does not necessarily share my views - but I'm working on it."
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