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- From: billj@b11.b11.ingr.com (Bill Jones)
- Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.035544.21083@b11.b11.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
- References: <1992Aug20.181915.2357@twg.com> <id.J0KS.KF1@ferranti.com> <ALANB.92Aug25171719@swordfish.sdl.mdcbbs.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:55:44 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins) writes:
-
- >>>>>> On Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:16:02 GMT, peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) said:
-
- >> 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:
-
- >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.
-
-
- I haven't been reading this group, but I have to jump into this thread.
-
- I was whining about the dearth of UN*Xy tools for my Mac a couple of
- months ago, and decided to implement a piping, shell-like environment.
- After staring at the problem a while, I realized what I really wanted
- was something that combined the better qualites of GUIs and shells.
- I ended up with sketches for a system that sounds vaguely like what
- you're describing.
-
- It'll take a couple of weeks (It's a not part of my job) to pull my
- design notes into something for anybody's eyes but mine, but I'd love
- to get some feedback on this project before I start implementing the
- interface. Anybody interested?
-
- Please post, or email to me at the address listed below. The node I am
- posting this from won't forward my mail.
-
- Bill Jones
- Madison, Alabama
-
- wjones@aol.com
-
-